/meuh reen"/ , adj.
1. of or pertaining to the sea; existing in or produced by the sea: marine vegetation.
2. pertaining to navigation or shipping; nautical; naval; maritime.
3. serving on shipboard, as soldiers.
4. of or belonging to the marines.
5. adapted for use at sea: a marine barometer.
n.
6. a member of the U.S. Marine Corps.
7. one of a class of naval troops serving both on shipboard and on land.
8. seagoing ships collectively, esp. with reference to nationality or class; shipping in general.
9. a picture with a marine subject; seascape.
10. naval affairs, or the department of a government, as in France, having to do with such affairs.
11. dead marine , Australian Slang. an empty bottle of beer or spirits.
12. tell it or that to the marines! I don't believe your story; I refuse to be fooled.
[ 1325-75; ME maryne marin (fem. marine ) marinus of the sea, deriv. of mare sea; see -INE 1 ]