Mar
Mar , noun
A small lake. See Mere. [Provincial English]
Mar (mard) , transitive verb
[Old English marren, merren, Anglo-Saxon merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to Old Saxon merrian, Old High German marrjan, merran; compare Dutch marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icelandic merja to bruise, crush, and Gothic marzjan to offend. Compare Moor, v.]
1.
To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks.
But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.
Ire, envy, and despair
Which marred all his borrowed visage.
2.
To spoil; to ruin.
It makes us, or it mars us.
Striving to mend, to mar the subject.
Mar , noun
A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.