marrow

noun

1. (uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)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. (countable, uncountable)The pith of certain plants.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)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. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The inner meaning or purpose.
6. (colloquial, countable)Bone marrow biopsy.

   “This patient will have a marrow today.”

   “I was chilled to the marrow.”

7. (obsolete, uncountable)Semen.

   “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.”

8. (Geordie, informal)A friend, pal, buddy, mate.

   “Cheers marrow!”

9. (obsolete, slang)A 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 […]”

10. (Scotland, archaic)One 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.”

name

1. A surname.