Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The pulpy residue left after the juice has been pressed from grapes, apples, or other fruits.
- n. Brandy distilled from grape or apple residue.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See mark.
- n. The refuse matter which remains after the pressing of fruit, as grapes or olives; as applied to apples, pomace.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
- n. obsolete A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
- n. obsolete A German coin and money of account; the mark.
- n. The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
- n. An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
- n. A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
- n. A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
- n. A German coin and money of account. See Mark.
WordNet 3.0
- n. made from residue of grapes or apples after pressing
Etymologies
- From Middle French marc. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Old French march, from marchier, to trample; see march1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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“A spirit distilled from the skins, stems, and pips of grapes after they are crushed and the juice is drawn off is called marc in France and grappa in Italy.”
“The marc is then thrown away, and to every gallon of the liquor, or must, as it is called, three pounds of lump sugar are added, and the whole is well stirred together; the tub is afterwards covered with a blanket, and the wine is left to ferment in a temperature of from 55° to 60°.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“Hot water is then poured over the marc, in the proportion of two quarts of water to every gallon of the fruit before it was crushed; and, after remaining in the tub twelve hours, the marc is again pressed, and the water added to the liquor from the fruit.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“It is then left to stand about six hours, when the mass, or marc, as it is called, is put into a coarse bag and pressed; more water is then poured over the marc, which is again pressed, till as much water has been added as will make the proportion in all four gallons of water to ten pounds of fruit.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“At the end of the feast, we downed Armenian coffee and copied our friend Misha, who studied the "marc" or thick deposit left at the bottom of the cup.”
“Some persons distil red wine with the "marc" into brandy immediately after fermentation, but if left to pass a secondary fermentation it would yield more alcohol.”
“2. Open the program and type in your account name such as marc@hotmail.com or marc@live.com and your password.”
“(Cahiers of the Third-Estate of Arnay-le-Duc)] [Footnote 5247: In these figures the rise of the money standard has been kept in mind, the silver "marc," worth 59 francs in 1965, being worth 49 francs during the last half of the eighteenth century.] [Footnote 5248: "Procès-verbaux de l'ass.prov. de Ile-de-France," 132,”
“Of course, nobody ever got elected by saying that they were reducing what they were willing to pay for a vote, with money borrowed from future taxpayers, so the chance of anything of signifigance happening soon is small. marc sobel says:”
Matthew Yglesias » Fiscal Crunches Are Resolved When There’s No Alternative
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘marc’.
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phrontistery - m
from phrontistery.info
multiloculate, multilocation, multiflorous, multifid, multifarious, multicipital, multeity, multarticulate, multanimous, mulse, mullock, mullion and 898 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Ends with C but not with "-ic"
bloc, roc, arc, orc, disc, sac, xebec, havoc, bivouac, sumac, maniac, insomniac and 418 more...
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Lees
Items of little or no value that are left behind by physical or biological processes other than passing through an alimentary canal. See also Valse's Leftovers and reesetee's Hogwash! for other tak...
lees, dross, dregs, orts, debris, jetsam, flotsam, rubbage, rubbish, trash, refuse, junk and 130 more...
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Gaw
Words for things both tangible and anthropic. I'm in the process of spinning off hardware into ute, and people into oofy.
cum-twang, naumachia, yngling, juggernaught, bliss ninny, iliac crest, moistened bint, slumlord, spondoolies, classy lady, charnel house, electrodoméstico and 334 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Brochettes of Random Palavery
Another of my random palavery lists for words or phrases that haven't yet found a place in one or more of my other lists.
nonexclusivity, adaptationist, paxillin, adduct, unblushingly cribbed, ptomaïne, microsievert, millisievert, too big to jail, tastemaker, tinsmithing, Nimzo-Indian and 1616 more...
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Thirteen
triskaidecagon, tridecagon, demiculverin, enneagynia, terzdecimole, trecena, monogynia, sash-saw, digynia, threttene, baker’s dozen, triskaidekaphobia and 40 more...
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Cataloger words
series, serial, entry, uniform title, authority, location, access, holdings, marc, aacr2, oclc, fixed field and 18 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for marc.
knitandpurl "At the back, the kitchen (?), another table where two women and a man are playing cards and sipping some marc. No one else."
Witch Grass by Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, p 33 of the NYRB paperback Nov 5, 2010
knitandpurl "Hassan can ask that a barman at a bar tap a cask and draw a man a draft (half a dram, a glass): marc, grappa and armagnac, malt, arrack and schnapps."
Eunoia by Christian Bök (upgraded edition), p 16 May 19, 2010
bilby Cram backwards. Sep 30, 2008
mollusque Thanks, bilby! Sep 30, 2008
bilby Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees! Sep 30, 2008
yarb A spirit similar to grappa.
Also an acronym of "Maintenance and Repair Contract". Nov 24, 2007
oroboros 1. The pulpy residue left after the juice has been pressed from grapes, apples, or other fruits.
2. Brandy distilled from grape or apple residue. Jul 30, 2007
john An acronym for MAchine-Readable Cataloging. MARC is a data standard used by libraries to store and exchange bibliographic information via computer, originally developed by Henriette Avram at the Library of Congress in the 1960s: http://www.loc.gov/marc/. Jul 30, 2007