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Bank martin. (a) The bank
swallow. See under Bank. (b) The
fairy martin. See under Fairy. -- Bee
martin. (a) The purple martin.
(b) The kingbird. -- Sand
martin, the bank swallow.

Mar"ti*net` (?), n. [So called from an
officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf.
Martin the bird, Martlet.] In military language, a
strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid
adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed
methods. [Hence, the word is commonly employed in a
depreciatory sense.]

Mar"ti*net`, n. [F.]
(Zoöl.) The martin.

Mar`ti*ne"ta (?), n. [Cf. Sp.
martinete.] (Zoöl.) A species of tinamou
(Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

Mar"ti*net`ism (?), n. The
principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline,
etc.

{ Mar"tin*gale (?), Mar"tin*gal (?), }
n.


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