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Mar"te*line (?), n. [F.] A small
hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Mar*tel"lo tow`er (?). [It. martello hammer. The
name was orig. given to towers erected on the coasts of Sicily and
Sardinia for protection against the pirates in the time of Charles
the Fifth, which prob. orig. contained an alarm bell to be struck
with a hammer. See Martel.] (Fort.) A building of
masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a
gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired
in any direction.

&fist; The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in
1794.

Mar"ten (mär"t&ebreve;n), n.
(Zoöl.) A bird. See Martin.

Mar"ten, n. [From older martern,
marter, martre, F. martre, marte, LL.
martures (pl.), fr. L. martes; akin to AS.
mearð, meard, G. marder, OHG. mardar,
Icel. mörðr. Cf. Foumart.] 1.
(Zoöl.) Any one of several fur-bearing carnivores of
the genus Mustela, closely allied to the sable.


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