mar

M'AR, verb transitive [Latin marceo.] 1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision. I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks. Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus 19:27. 2. To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of. When brewers mar their malt with water. 3. To injure; to diminish; to interrupt. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. 4. To injure; to deform; to disfigure. Ire, envy and despair Marr'd all his borrow'd visage. His visage was so marred more than any man. Isaiah 52:1. Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God. [This word is not obsolete in America.] MAR, in nightmar. [See Nightmar.] M'AR, noun An injury. 1. A lake. [See Mere.]