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Marrow   /mˈɛroʊ/   Listen
noun
Marrow  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.
2.
The essence; the best part. "It takes from our achievements... The pith and marrow of our attribute."
3.
One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. (Scot.) "Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end."
Marrow squash (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegetable marrow, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow.
Spinal marrow. (Anat.) See Spinal cord, under Spinal.



verb
Marrow  v. t.  (past & past part. marrowed; pres. part. marrowing)  To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.






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"Marrow" Quotes from Famous Books



... burns; And he's here on the quay all by himself, Not even a slave to fan him!—Man, you're ailing! You look like death; is it the falling sickness? Or has the mere thought of the Indian journey Made your marrow quail with a ...
— Georgian Poetry 1911-12 • Various

... beans (French, kidney, and Windsor), white beet, cabbage, carrots, cauliflowers, chervil, cucumbers, endive, herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuce, onions, peas, potatoes, radishes, salad of all sorts, spinach, turnips, vegetable marrow. ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... gracious and loving themselves, but to be proud and self-willed, unjust and cruel, should remember that the gracious and loving Christ is also the most terrible and awful of all beings; sharper than a two-edged sword, piercing asunder the very joints and marrow, discerning the most secret thoughts and intents of the heart; a righteous judge, strong and patient, who is provoked every day: but if a man WILL not turn he will whet his sword. He hath bent his bow and made it ready, and laid his ...
— The Gospel of the Pentateuch • Charles Kingsley

... declares that they were half starved, and would sometimes beg bones from the people who came to look at them. When they obtained bones they would dig out the marrow, and devour it. The guard was cruel and spiteful. One day they heated some pokers red hot and began to burn the prisoners' shirts that were hung up to dry. These men begged the guard, in a very civil manner, not to burn ...
— American Prisoners of the Revolution • Danske Dandridge

... ashamed? Are you not ashamed? You barbarian! You tyrant! You have robbed me of all I possessed—you have sucked my bones to the marrow. How long shall I be your ...
— The Idiot • (AKA Feodor Dostoevsky) Fyodor Dostoyevsky


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