marrow
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Is marrow a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (uncountable) The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.Examples: "Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear."; "Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert"uncountable
2. (figurative) The essence; the best part.Examples: "It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith and marrow of our attribute."; "I cannot commend , with theefe of his marrow, for feare of ill end"Synonyms: crux, gist, bowels, brass tacks, core, crux, essence, gistcountablefigurativelyuncountable
3. (figurative) The inner meaning or purpose.countablefigurativelyuncountable
4. (countable, medicine, colloquial) Bone marrow biopsy.Examples: "This patient will have a marrow today."; "I was chilled to the marrow."colloquialcountable
5. (uncountable, obsolete) Semen.Examples: "Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed."obsoleteuncountable
noun (English)
1. (Geordie, informal) A friend, pal, buddy, mate.Examples: "Cheers marrow!"Geordieinformal
2. (mining, slang, obsolete) A miner's mate or assistant.Examples: "A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated, […] but out of this sum, his "marrows" or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid […]"obsoleteslang
3. (Scotland or archaic) One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.Examples: "The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle my morrowe. / The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe."; "The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no his marrow left in the toun."Scotlandarchaic
Definition source: Wiktionary