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- Marine metal, an alloy of lead, antimony, and
mercury, made for sheathing ships. Mc Elrath. --
Marine soap, cocoanut oil soap; -- so called
because, being quite soluble in salt water, it is much used on
shipboard. -- Marine store, a store where
old canvas, ropes, etc., are bought and sold; a junk shop.
[Eng.]

Ma*rine", n. [F. marin a sea
solider, marine naval economy, a marine picture, fr. L.
marinus. See Marine, a.]
1. A solider serving on shipboard; a sea
soldier; one of a body of troops trained to do duty in the
navy.

2. The sum of naval affairs; naval economy;
the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping
of a country; as, the mercantile marine.

3. A picture representing some marine
subject.

Tell that to the marines, an expression of
disbelief, the marines being regarded by sailors as
credulous. [Colloq.]

Ma*rined" (?), a. [Cf.

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