noun

• (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
• (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  "I do remember a great thron in Yatton field near Bristow-way, against which Sir William Waller's men made a great fire and killed it. I think the stump remains, and was a mark for travellers."
• (heading) Boundary, land within a boundary.
  "There dwells Théoden son of Thengel, King of the Mark of Rohan."

verb

• (figurative) To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something).
  "The death of his wife, followed by months of being alone, had marked him with guilt and shame and had left an unbreaking loneliness on him."
• (of things) To identify (someone as a particular type of person or as having a particular role).
  "His courage and energy marked him as a leader."
• (of people) To assign (someone) to a particular category or class.
  "The new captain would read the fitness report and mark him once and for all as an unreliable fool […]"
• (of people) To choose or intend (someone) for a particular end or purpose.
  "When a king, hath once markt for his hate, / A man inferior; […] / […] euermore, he rakes vp in his brest, / Brands of quicke anger;"

noun

• (historical) A half pound, a traditional unit of mass equivalent to 226.8 g.
• (historical) Similar half-pound units in other measurement systems, chiefly used for gold and silver.
  "As a reward for his poetry, Athelstan gave Egil two more gold rings weighing a mark each, along with an expensive cloak that the king himself had worn."
• (historical) A half pound, a former English and Scottish currency equivalent to 13 shillings and fourpence and notionally equivalent to a mark of sterling silver.
  "George, on receiving it, instantly rose from the side of one of them, and said, in the hearing of them all, ‘I will bet a hundred merks that is Drummond.’"
• (historical) Other similar currencies notionally equal to a mark of silver or gold.

noun

• (historical) A former currency of Germany and West Germany.
  "Aus der Geschichte der menschlichen Dummheit. By Dr. Max Kemmerich. Price 3 mark 50 pfennige. Bavaria: Verlag Albert Langen, Munich."