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noun

Marrow n.

(Anat.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.

The essence; the best part. "It takes from our achievements... The pith and marrow of our attribute."

One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. (Scot.) "Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end."

Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegetable marrow, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow.

Spinal marrow. (Anat.) See Spinal cord, under Spinal.

verb

Marrow v. t. (past & past part. marrowed; pres. part. marrowing) To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.

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"Marrow" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scotland, he wrote an original little book, The Crook in the Lot, and a learned treatise on the Hebrew points. He also took a leading part in the Courts of the Church in what was known as the "Marrow Controversy," regarding the merits of an English work, The Marrow of Modern Divinity, which he defended against the attacks of the "Moderate" party in the Church. B., if unduly introspective, was a man of singular piety and amiability. His autobiography is an interesting ...

— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin

... coming up to their very lips with a full tide,—it could not be that in the very moment of victory all should be lost through the base weakness of a young girl! Was it possible that her daughter,—the daughter of one who had spent the very marrow of her life in fighting for the position that was due to her,—should spoil all by preferring a journeyman tailor to a young nobleman of high rank, of ancient lineage, and one, too, who by his marriage with herself ...

— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope

... the Lord of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. 7. And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations. 8. He will swallow up death in ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... interior of the cranium; so that the capacity of the one is no measure of the solid bulk of the other. Their food is various, having no relation to the teeth or buccal appendages; vascular structures surround the spinal marrow, and extend in the Balaenopterae into the cavity of the cranium, which seem to be without any analogy in other mammals, or, at the least, a very obscure one, and ...

— Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 - Zoology • Various

... two, and how we may "knit up this ravelled sleeve" of life so that once more we may have an wholesome unity in place of the present disunity; for until this is accomplished, until once more religion enters into the very marrow of social being, enters with all its powers of judgment and determination and co-ordination and creative energy, just so long shall we seek in vain for our way out into the Great Peace of righteous ...

— Towards the Great Peace • Ralph Adams Cram

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