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Marshall   /mˈɑrʃəl/   Listen
Marshall

noun
1.
United States actor (1914-1998).  Synonym: E. G. Marshall.
2.
United States general and statesman who as Secretary of State organized the European Recovery Program (1880-1959).  Synonyms: George Catlett Marshall, George Marshall.
3.
United States jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he established the principles of United States constitutional law (1755-1835).  Synonym: John Marshall.
4.
(in some countries) a military officer of highest rank.  Synonym: marshal.
5.
A law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in carrying out the judgments of a court of law.  Synonym: marshal.



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... Cerebellum. The former drawing is taken from a cast in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, the latter from the photograph of the cast of a Chimpanzee's skull, which illustrates the paper by Mr. Marshall 'On the Brain of the Chimpanzee' in the 'Natural History Review' for July, 1861. The sharper definition of the lower edge of the cast of the cerebral chamber in the Chimpanzee arises from the circumstance that the tentorium remained in that skull and not in the Man's. The cast more ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

... Hill a pleasant walk may be taken to an eminence in Mr. Marshall's woods, and another by crossing the bridge at the foot of the hill, upon which the Inn stands, and turning to the right, after the opposite hill has been ascended a little way, then follow the road for half a mile or so that leads towards Lorton, looking back upon ...
— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... Master of Trinity, Whewell, at Cambridge, brought him into contact with Professer Willis, the authority on Gothic architecture, and other notabilities of the sister University. There also he met Mr. and Mrs. Marshall of Leeds (and Coniston); and he pursued his journey to Lincoln, with Mr. Simpson, whom he had met at Lady Davy's, and to Farnley for a visit to Mr. F.H. Fawkes, the owner of the celebrated collection of Turners ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood

... years by the schisms of a controversial people; the roots of the other were deep in the great English ecclesiastical system." This college has been called a school of statesmen. It was here that Jefferson, Randolph, Tyler, Monroe, Blair, Marshall, and other prominent ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker

... province of Maryland, under the Committee of Plantations, and for the indemnity of the actors in it, and for that such false and feigned actions for matters of war acted in foreign parts, are not tryable at common law, but, if at all, before the Court and Marshall; and for that it would be a dangerous example to permit Papists and malignants to bring actions of trespass or otherwise against the well affected ...
— Captain Richard Ingle - The Maryland • Edward Ingle


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