mary : Idioms & Phrases

• noun United States painter of colorful and primitive rural scenes (1860-1961)
  Moses; Grandma Moses.
  

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• noun celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church
  Assumption; August 15.
  

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• noun daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
  Mary I; Bloody Mary.
  
• noun a cocktail made with vodka and spicy tomato juice
  

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• noun eastern United States plant with whorls of blue-and-white flowers
  Collinsia verna.
  

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• noun prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)
  Agatha Christie; Christie.
  

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• noun English chemist (born in Egypt) who used crystallography to study the structure of organic compounds (1910-1994)
  Hodgkin; Dorothy Hodgkin.
  

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• noun a salutation to the Virgin Mary now used in prayers to her
  Ave Maria.
  

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• noun (Christianity) the Roman Catholic dogma that God preserved the Virgin Mary from any stain of original sin from the moment she was conceived
  Immaculate Conception.
  

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• noun small widely branching western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado
  Collinsia parviflora.
  

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• noun British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)
  George Eliot; Eliot.
  

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• noun United States suffragist (1820-1905)
  Livermore.
  

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• noun English writer of novels who was an active opponent of the women's suffrage movement (1851-1920)
  Ward; Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
  

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• noun founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)
  Eddy; Mary Baker Eddy.
  

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• noun English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
  Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey.
  

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• noun United States writer (1925-1964)
  Flannery O'Connor; O'Connor.
  

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• noun English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
  Shelley; Mary Shelley; Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley.
  

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• noun United States labor leader (born in Ireland) who helped to found the Industrial Workers of the World (1830-1930)
  Jones; Mother Jones.
  

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• noun daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
  Mary I; Bloody Mary.
  

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• noun Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; she was the eldest daughter of James II and ruled jointly with her husband William III (1662-1694)
  

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• noun street names for marijuana
  sess; skunk; pot; weed; gage; smoke; sens; grass; green goddess; dope; locoweed.
  

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• noun English paleontologist (the wife of Louis Leakey) who discovered the Zinjanthropus skull that was 1,750,000 years old (1913-1996)
  Leakey; Mary Douglas Leakey.
  

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• noun United States operatic soprano (born 1927)
  Price; Leontyne Price.
  

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• noun heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1832)
  McCauley; Molly Pitcher; Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.
  

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• noun sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
  Mary Magdalene; Mary Magdalen; St. Mary Magdalen.
  

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• noun sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
  Mary Magdalene; Mary Magdalen; St. Mary Magdalen.
  

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• noun United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)
  Mary Mallon; Mallon.
  

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• noun United States actress (1913-1990)
  Martin.
  

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• noun United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
  Mary McCarthy; McCarthy.
  

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• noun heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1832)
  McCauley; Molly Pitcher; Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley.
  

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• noun United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955)
  Bethune.
  

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• noun founder of Christian Science in 1866 (1821-1910)
  Eddy; Mary Baker Eddy.
  

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• noun United States film actress (born in Canada) who starred in silent films (1893-1979)
  Pickford; Gladys Smith.
  

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• noun queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
  Mary Queen of Scots.
  

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• noun English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
  Shelley; Mary Shelley; Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley.
  

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• noun queen of Scotland from 1542 to 1567; as a Catholic she was forced to abdicate in favor of her son and fled to England where she was imprisoned by Elizabeth I; when Catholic supporters plotted to put her on the English throne she was tried and executed for sedition (1542-1587)
  Mary Queen of Scots.
  

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• noun United States satirical novelist and literary critic (1912-1989)
  Mary McCarthy; McCarthy.
  

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• noun daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon who was Queen of England from 1553 to 1558; she was the wife of Philip II of Spain and when she restored Roman Catholicism to England many Protestants were burned at the stake as heretics (1516-1558)
  Mary I; Bloody Mary.
  

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• noun English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
  Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft.
  

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• noun English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; mother of Mary Shelley (1759-1797)
  Mary Wollstonecraft; Wollstonecraft.
  

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• noun English writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
  Shelley; Mary Shelley; Mary Godwin Wollstonecraft Shelley.
  

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Ma"ry-bud` noun

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1. (Bot.) The marigold; a blossom of the marigold. Shak.

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• noun (Roman Catholic Church) a holy day of obligation
  January 1.
  

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• noun sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
  Mary Magdalene; Mary Magdalen; St. Mary Magdalen.
  

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• noun sinful woman Jesus healed of evil spirits; she became a follower of Jesus
  Mary Magdalene; Mary Magdalen; St. Mary Magdalen.
  

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• noun port city in northern Brazil in the Amazon delta; main port and commercial center for the Amazon River basin
  Santa Maria de Belem; Feliz Lusitania; Para; Belem.
  

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• noun United States cook who was an immune carrier of typhoid fever and who infected dozens of people (1870-1938)
  Mary Mallon; Mallon.
  

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• noun the mother of Jesus; Christians refer to her as the Virgin Mary; she is especially honored by Roman Catholics
  The Virgin; Blessed Virgin; Mary; Madonna.
  
• noun a Bloody Mary made without alcohol
  bloody shame.
  

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• noun joint monarchs of England; William III and Mary II
  

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