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marrow 1 [mar-oh] EXAMPLES|WORD ORIGIN noun Anatomy. a soft, fatty, vascular tissue in the interior cavities of bones that is a major site of blood cell production. the inmost or essential part: to pierce to the marrow of a problem. strength or vitality: Fear took the marrow out of him. rich and nutritious food. Chiefly British. vegetable marrow. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of marrow 1 before 900; Middle English mar(o)we, Old English mearg; cognate with Dutch merg, German Mark, Old Norse mergr Related formsmar·row·ish, adjectivemar·row·less, adjectivemar·row·y, adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for marrowless Historical Examples of marrowless
Nae equal to you but our dog Sorkie, and he’s dead, so ye’re marrowless.
Alexander Hislop
Their Christianity is as sapless and fruitless as a dead tree, and as dry and marrowless as an old bone.
John Charles Ryle
Shivers ran down his back—his marrowless back, his bloodless body—like a stream of ice-cold water?
Louis Couperus
We cannot think of poor Falstaff going to bed without his cup of sack, or Macbeth fed on bones as marrowless as those of Banquo.
Sir Walter Scott
Again and again the idea recurs that all true art must be allegorical, that is to say, marrowless and bloodless.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Vol. II (of 6): The Romantic School in Germany
Georg Brandes
British Dictionary definitions for marrowless marrow 1 noun the fatty network of connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones the vital part; essence vitality rich food British short for vegetable marrow Derived Formsmarrowy, adjectiveWord Origin for marrow Old English mærg; related to Old Frisian merg, Old Norse mergr marrow 2 noun Northeast English dialect, mainly Durham a companion, esp a workmate Word Origin for marrow C15 marwe fellow worker, perhaps of Scandinavian origin; compare Icelandic margr friendly Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for marrowless marrow n.
late 14c., from Old English mearg “marrow,” earlier mærh, from Proto-Germanic *mazga- (cf. Old Norse mergr, Old Saxon marg, Old Frisian merg, Middle Dutch march, Dutch merg, Old High German marg, German Mark “marrow”), from PIE *mozgo- “marrow” (cf. Sanskrit majjan-, Avestan mazga- “marrow,” Old Church Slavonic mozgu, Lithuanian smagenes “brain”). Figurative sense of “inmost or central part” is attested from c.1400.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper marrowless in Medicine marrow [măr′ō] n. Bone marrow. The spinal cord. The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. marrowless in Science marrow [măr′ō] See bone marrow. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. marrowless in Culture marrow
The soft, specialized connective tissue that fills the cavities of bones. One kind of bone marrow is responsible for manufacturing red blood cells in the body.
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