Marrowname

• 1

  A surname.

marrownoun詞源 1/ˈmæɹəʊ/

• 1

  The substance inside bones which produces blood cells.

  • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • Chop me up, I like to be hurt / Drink my marrow and blood for dessert
• 2

  A kind of vegetable similar to a large courgette, zucchini or squash; the mature fruit of certain Cucurbita pepo cultivars.

  • The finest European vegetables, cabbages, cauliflowers, potatoes, vegetable marrow, were lying in the market-hall, awaiting purchasers.
• 3

  The pith of certain plants.

• 4

  The essence; the best part.

  • It takes from our achievements[…]/ The pith and marrow of our attribute.
  • I cannot commend , with theefe of his marrow, for feare of ill end
• 5

  The inner meaning or purpose.

• 6

  medicinesciencesBone marrow biopsy.

  • This patient will have a marrow today.
• 7

  obsoleteSemen.

  • Parolles: He wears his honour in a box, unseen / That hugs his kicky-wicky here at home, / Spending his manly marrow in her arms / Of Mars’s fiery steed.

marrownoun詞源 2

• 1

  informalA friend, pal, buddy, mate.

  • Cheers marrow!
• 2

  obsoleteslangbusinessminingA miner's mate or assistant.

  • A 'getter' or miner is paid 1½ to 2 cents per hundred weight of Coals excavated, […] but out of this sum, his "marrows" or assistants who do the business of 'putting' and 'hurrying' for him must be paid […]
• 3

  archaicOne of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate.

  • The moon’s my constant Mistresse / & the lowlie owle my morrowe. / The flaming Drake and yͤ Nightcrowe make / mee musicke to my sorrowe.
  • The dreichest saul could see he had sunlicht in his ee, / And there's no his marrow left in the toun.