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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

... Sam is in need of men, and those who lose with Venus may win with Mars. Enclosed papers you will know best what to do with. Be a mother to the children—you ...

— Danger Signals • John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

... illustrious names who have given a brilliance to these alleyed walks and corridors are to be recalled Corneille, Conde, Saint Vincent de Paul, Moliere, Turenne, Madame de Longueville, De Thou, Cinq-Mars, Richelieu, D'Ormesson, the Prince de Talmon, the Marquis de Tesse and the Comte ...

— Royal Palaces and Parks of France • Milburg Francisco Mansfield

... colored to represent the tints which the Sabeans thought appropriate to the seven planets. Beginning from the bottom they were black, orange, bright red, golden, pale yellow, dark blue and silver, representing respectively the colors of Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus. Mercury, and the Moon. These marks may indicate the prevalence of idolatry and have led some to think the tower of Babel was intended to do honor to the gods ...

— The Bible Period by Period - A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods • Josiah Blake Tidwell

... it? A comedy meant to seem a tragedy— A feint, a farce. My honest lord, you are known Thro' all the courts of Christendom as one That mars a cause with over-violence. You have wrong'd Fitzurse. I speak not of myself. We thought to scare this minion of the King Back from her churchless commerce with the King To the fond arms of her first love, Fitzurse, Who swore to marry her. You have spoilt ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... I feel thy breath, O spring! And now the seal hath fallen from my gaze, And thy wild music in my ready ear Finds a quick echo! The discordant world Mars not thy melodies; thy blossoms now Are emblems of my heart; and through my veins The flow of youthful feeling, long pent up, Glides like thy sunny streams! In this fair scene, On forms still fairer I my blessing pour; On her the beautiful, ...

— Venetia • Benjamin Disraeli

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