marking
nounA making or giving of a mark.
A mark or marks made.
A mark or pattern of marks on an organism.
The act of impressing a mark upon something.—2. In coinage, the process of edge-rolling, or swaging the edge of the blank to prepare it for reeding.—3. A mark or series of marks upon something; characteristic arrangement of marks, as lines or dots, or of natural coloring.
Making a mark; hence, distinguishing; significant; striking.
