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Marys vs Marish - What's the difference?

marys | marish | Alternative forms |

Marys is an alternative form of marish.


As nouns the difference between marys and marish

is that marys is or marys can be while marish is a marsh.

As an adjective marish is

marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.

marys

English

Noun

(head)

    • marish

    English

    Alternative forms

    * marrish * marys

    Noun

    (marishes)
  • A marsh.
  • *:
  • *:Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue // Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then?e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe
  • *1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book XII:
  • *:The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
  • * Tennyson
    • And the silvery marish' flowers that throng / The ' desolate creeks and pools among.
  • *, II.12:
  • *:after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.
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