n. A visible impression made by some material object upon another; a line, dot, dent, cut, stamp, bruise, scar, spot, stain, etc., consisting either of the visible effect produced by the impressing object or the transfer of a part of its substance.n. Specifically—2. An impressed or attached sign, stamp, label, or ticket; a significant or distinguishing symbol or device; that which is impressed or stamped upon or fixed to something for information, identification, or verification: as, a manufacturer's marks on his wares (see trade-mark); the mark made by an illiterate person opposite or between the parts of his name when written by another on his behalf; a merchant's private marks on his goods, to indicate their price or other particulars to his assistants; a mark branded on an animal by its owner; to give a student so many marks for proficiency. See hall-mark.n. A distinguishing physical peculiarity; a spot, mote, nævus, special formation, or other singularity; a natural sign: as, a birth-mark; the marks on sea-shells or wild animals.n. A significant note, character, sign, token, or indication; a determinative attestation. In logic, to say that a thing has a certain mark is to say that something in particular is true of it. Thus, according to a certain school of metaphysicians, “incognizability is a mark of the Infinite.”n. A guiding or indicative sign or token.n. A badge, banner, or other distinguishing device.n. An object aimed at; a point of assault or attack; especially, something set up or marked out to be shot at: often used figuratively: as, to hit or miss the mark; a mark for detraction.n. An object of endeavor; a point or purpose striven for; that which one aims to reach or attain.n. An attainable point or limit; capacity for reaching; reach; range.n. An object of note or observation; hence, a pattern or example.n. Right to notice or observation; claim or title to distinction; importance; eminence: as, a man of mark.n. A marking or noting; note; attention; observance.n. A license of reprisals. See marque.n. A boundary; a bound or limit noted or established; hence, a set standard, or a limit to be reached: as, to speak within the mark; to be up to the mark.n. In the middle ages, in England and Germany, a tract of land belonging in common to a community of freemen, who divided the cultivated portion or arable mark among their individual members, used the common or ordinary mark together for pasturage or other general purposes, and dwelt in the village mark or central portion, or apart on their holdings. It was a customary tenure, like that of the existing Russian mir, and was similarly managed and governed.n. Image; likeness.n. Hence The mass of beings having a common likeness; posterity.n. To make one's influence felt; gain a position of influence and distinction.n. Badge.n. Characteristic, proof.To make a mark or marks on; apply or attach a mark to; affect with a mark or marks by drawing, impressing, stamping, cutting, imposing, or the like.To apply or fix by drawing, impressing, stamping, or the like; form by making a mark or marks: as, to mark a line or square on a board; to mark a name or direction on a package.To serve as a mark or characteristic of; distinguish or point out, literally or figuratively; stamp or characterize.To notice; observe particularly; take note of; regard; heed.To single out; designate; point out.To wound; strike.To mark at a lower rate; reduce the price-marks on: as, to mark down prices; to mark down a line or stock of goods.To notify, as by a mark; point out; designate: as, the ringleaders were marked out for punishment.To indicate the rhythm for music; beat time.To show, evince, indicate, betoken, denote.To note, remark.To act as marker or score-keeper; keep a score; set down or record results at successive stages.To note; take notice.n. A unit of weight used in England before the Conquest, and in nearly all the countries of Europe down to the introduction of the metric system, especially for gold and silver.n. An Anglo-Saxon and early English money of account.n. A modern silver coin of the German empire, containing precisely 5 grams of fine silver, or 0.20784 of that in a United States silver dollar.n. A silver coin of Scotland issued in 1663 by Charles II., worth at the time 13s. 4d. Scotch (or 13 pence and one third of a penny English).To march; proceed.Dark.n. Dark; darkness.n. In ordnance (followed by a Roman numeral), an expression used to distinguish different designs of the same size and type of gun or mount: as, 6-inch B. L. R., mark II (a 6-inch caliber breech-loading rifle-gun of a design indicated as marked two).n. In Australia, a person, conspicuous in the community for his integrity and high business standing, who would rather allow himself to be imposed upon than seem to impose upon another; an ‘easy mark’ for the unscrupulous.n. A current silver coin of Finland, equal to 100 pennia (see penni), and equivalent to 19 cents.n. A silver coin of Schleswig-Holstein, equal to 16 skillings, and equivalent to 24 cents.n. Same as marc.