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merck

merck is the obsolete spelling of mark.

Meaning of mark

Noun

mark (plural marks)

  1. (obsolete) A boundary; a border or frontier.
  2. (obsolete) A boundary-post or fence.
  3. A stone or post used to indicate position and guide travellers.
    • I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers.1859, Henry Bull, A history, military and municipal, of the ancient borough of the Devizes
  4. The line indicating an athlete's starting-point.
  5. (archaic) A type of small region or principality.
    • There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan.1954, J R R Tolkien, The Two Towers
  6. (historical) A common, or area of common land, especially among early Germanic peoples.

See all 68 meanings of mark

Proper noun capitalized: Merck

Merck (plural Mercks)

  1. A surname.

Forms of merck

Noun
pluralmercks
Proper noun
pluralMercks

Questions about merck

What does merck mean?
Merck means a surname.
What is merck the obsolete spelling of?
Merck is the obsolete spelling of mark.
What part of speech is merck?
Merck is a proper noun.

Words near merck in the dictionary

  1. mercilessnesses
  2. merciness
  3. mercing
  4. mercing up
  5. mercis
  6. merck
  7. Merck's rhino
  8. Merck's rhinoceros
  9. Merck's rhinos
  10. Merckle
  11. mercks

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Adapted from Wiktionary: merck (page history and authors); Merck (page history and authors); mark (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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