‖n. [ F. ] 1. A straight, heavy sword with two edges, used in the 16th and 17th centuries. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blow with edge of a sword. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated within the margin. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A turmoil; a broil; a fray; a fight. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] Barham. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Stramazoun. ] To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [ Scot. & Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. estramaçon, It. stramazzone. ] A direct descending blow with the edge of a sword. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of tartramic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., woof. ] (Bot.) The loosely woven substance which lines the chambers within the gleba in certain Gasteromycetes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Pref. ultra- + marine. ] Situated or being beyond the sea. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. ultramarino. So called because the lapis lazuli was originally brought from beyond the sea, -- from Asia. ] (Chem.) A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. --
Ultramarine ash or
Ultramarine ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray than that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]