• (British) IPA: /ˈmaɹɪʃ/

marish (plural marishes)

1. (now poetic or archaic) A marsh.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, [http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext chapter primum], in Le Morte Darthur, book X:

     Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue / […] / Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then̄e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII:

     The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.

marish

1. (now poetic or archaic) Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.

• hoggy, quaggy, swampy; see also Thesaurus:marshy