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proper noun

Mars n.

(Rom. Myth.) The god of war and husbandry.

(Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles. It is conspicuous for the redness of its light.

(Alchemy) The metallic element iron, the symbol of which was the same as that of the planet Mars. (Archaic)

Mars brown, a bright, somewhat yellowish, brown.

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Etymology of 'Mars'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mars" Quotes from Famous Books

... pay his first visit to Paris, in the spring of 1826. There he met some old friends, made several new acquaintances, ate some excellent but expensive dinners, mastered the Louvre in a quarter of an hour, and saw Talma in tragedy and Mademoiselle Mars in "genteel comedy." At the Opera he noticed that "the house was full of English, who talk loud, and seem to care little for other people. This is their characteristic, and a very brutal and barbarous distinction ...

— Sydney Smith • George W. E. Russell

... apostle's argument, the deeper our interest in his theme. Some preliminary notices of Athens and "the Men of Athens" will therefore be appropriate as introductory to a series of discourses on Paul's sermon on Mars' Hill. ...

— Christianity and Greek Philosophy • Benjamin Franklin Cocker

... duty pertaining to a ship, with as much celerity as the crew of any other nation. And no confusion, no babbling of many voices, such as the British writers of the last generations delighted to describe, mars the beauty of the evolutions. One mind directs, and one voice alone breaks the stillness. Since the Crimean War, the English speak with respect of French seamanship; and though they do not believe that it is equal to their own, ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various

... of the greatest eclipse of the sun which had been seen for more than a century, when Venus and Mars were both visible, with the naked eye, for a few minutes in the middle of the day. Whatever the portents in the sky might mean, the signs on the earth were not reassuring. When the Bourbon monarchy had seemed fairly restored in France, all the world was ...

— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler

... couch she stood, And now she mars my rest; Still as I try the solemn mood, She hunts it from ...

— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various

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