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Martin   /mˈɑrtən/  /mˈɑrtɪn/   Listen
noun
Martin  n.  (Stone Working) A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.



Martin  n.  (Written also marten)  (Zool.) One of several species of swallows, usually having the tail less deeply forked than the tail of the common swallows. Note: The American purple martin, or bee martin (Progne subis or Progne purpurea), and the European house martin, or window martin (Hirundo urbica or Chelidon urbica), are the best known species.
Bank martin.
(a)
The bank swallow. See under Bank.
(b)
The fairy martin. See under Fairy.
Bee martin.
(a)
The purple martin.
(b)
The kingbird.
Sand martin, the bank swallow.






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"Martin" Quotes from Famous Books



... a calculated good humor, nodded, had his great coat off with a quick gesture, and slung it over his arm. Then he stepped past Tenney, who stood petrified as if he saw the risen dead, and into the room. This was Eugene Martin. He seemed not to be in the least subdued to the accepted rules of prayer-meeting, but nodded and smiled impartially, and, as if he had flashed that look about for the one niche waiting for him, stepped lightly over to Tira's corner ...
— Old Crow • Alice Brown

... Impulses Constitutional and functional Life Hysteria Hydro-carbonic Gas Bitters and Tonics Specific Medicines Epistles to the Ephesians and Colossians Oaths Flogging Eloquence of Abuse The Americans Book of Job Translation of the Psalms Ancient Mariner Undine Martin Pilgrim's Progress Prayer Church-singing Hooker Dreams Jeremy Taylor English Reformation Catholicity Gnosis Tertullian St. John Principles of a Review Party Spirit Southey's Life of Bunyan Laud Puritans and Cavaliers Presbyterians, Independents, and Bishops ...
— Specimens of the Table Talk of S.T.Coleridge • Coleridge

... Martin Morley pushed the untouched food from him and strode to the door of the cabin. The storm was coming up fast now. The lightning flashed and the thunder shook the house. Morley's heart ached for the ...
— A Son of the Hills • Harriet T. Comstock

... "George Martin is at the bar. I've had the tip that he 'traffics.' You'll remember he figured in ...
— Dope • Sax Rohmer

... there this Holy Grail, With miracles and marvels like to these, Not all unlike; which oftentime I read, Who read but on my breviary with ease, Till my head swims; and then go forth and pass Down to the little thorpe that lies so close, And almost plaster'd like a martin's nest To these old walls—and mingle with our folk; And knowing every honest face of theirs As well as ever shepherd knew his sheep, And every homely secret in their hearts, Delight myself with gossip and old wives, ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang


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