march

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To walk steadily and rhythmically forward in step with others.
• intransitive verb To begin to move in such a manner.
• intransitive verb To proceed directly and purposefully.
• intransitive verb To progress steadily onward; advance.
• intransitive verb To participate in an organized walk, as for a public cause.
• intransitive verb To cause to move or otherwise progress in a steady rhythmical manner.
• intransitive verb To traverse by progressing steadily and rhythmically.
• noun The act of marching, especially.
• noun The steady forward movement of a body of troops.
• noun A long tiring journey on foot.
• noun Steady forward movement or progression.
• noun A regulated pace.
• noun The distance covered within a certain period of time by moving or progressing steadily and rhythmically.
• noun Music A composition in regularly accented, usually duple meter that is appropriate to accompany marching.
• noun An organized walk or procession by a group of people for a specific cause or issue.
• idiom (on the march) Advancing steadily; progressing.
• idiom (steal a march on) To get ahead of, especially by quiet enterprise.
• noun The border or boundary of a country or an area of land; a frontier.
• noun A tract of land bordering on two countries and claimed by both.
• intransitive verb To have a common boundary.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To constitute a march or border; be bordering; lie continuously parallel and contiguous; abut.
• To dwell adjacent; neighbor.
• noun A frontier or boundary of a territory; a border; hence, a borderland; a district or political division of a country conterminous with the boundary-line of another country.
• noun The third month of our year, consisting of thirty-one days.
• To walk with measured steps, or with a steady regular tread; move in a deliberate, stately manner; step with regularity, earnestness, or gravity: often used trivially, as in the expression, he marched off angrily.
• Specifically, to walk with concerted steps in regular or measured time, as a body or a member of a body of soldiers or a procession; move in uniform order and time; step together in ranks.
• To move in military order, as a body of troops; advance in a soldierly manner: as, in the morning the regiment marched; they marched twenty miles.
• To cause to move in military order, or in a body or regular procession: as, to march an army to the battle-field.
• To cause to go anywhere at one's command and under one's guidance: as, the policeman marched his prisoner to the lockup.
• noun A measured and uniform walk or concerted and orderly movement of a body of men, as soldiers; a regular advance of a body of men, in which they keep time with each other and sometimes with music; stately and deliberate walk; steady or labored progression: used figuratively in regard to poetry, from its rhythm resembling the measured harmonious stepping of soldiery.
• noun An advance from one halting-place to another, as of a body of soldiers or travelers; the distance passed over in a single course of marching; a military journey of a body of troops: as, a march of twenty miles.
• noun Progressive advancement; progress; regular course.
• noun A military signal to move, consisting of a particular drum-beat or bugle-call.
• noun In music, a strongly rhythmical composition designed to accompany marching or to imitate a march-movement.
• noun In weaving, one of the short laths placed across the treadles beneath the shafts of a loom.
• noun In the game of euchre, a taking of all five tricks by one side.
• noun An abbreviation of Marchioness.
• noun The celery plant, Apium graveolens, and parsley, Petroselinum Petroselinum. Also merch.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
• noun an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent.
• noun A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
• transitive verb To cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.
• intransitive verb obsolete To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
• intransitive verb to have the same boundary for a greater or less distance; -- said of an estate.
• intransitive verb To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
• intransitive verb To proceed by walking in a body or in military order.
• noun The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
• noun Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.