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a. [ Pref. bi- + marginate. ] Having a double margin, as certain shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. emarginare; e out + marginare to furnish with a margin, fr. margo margin. ] To take away the margin of.

{ } a. 1. Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Notched at the summit. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Cryst.) Having the edges truncated. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an emarginate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Infra + marginal. ] Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Situated within the margin. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Litho- + L. marga marl. ] A clay of a fine smooth texture, and very sectile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. margarate. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. margarique. See Margarite. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Margaric acid. (a) (Physiol. Chem.) A fatty body, crystallizing in pearly scales, and obtained by digesting saponified fats (soaps) with an acid. It was formerly supposed to be an individual fatty acid, but is now known to be simply an intimate mixture of stearic and palmitic acids. (b) (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C17H34O2 of the fatty acid series, intermediate between palmitic and stearic acids, and obtained from the wax of certain lichens, from cetyl cyanide, and other sources. Called also heptadecanoic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. margarine. See Margarite. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and tripalmitin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; see margarin. ] 1. A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not. Margarine Act, 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 29). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Margarin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. margarita, Gr. &unr_; a pearl; cf. F. marguerite. ] 1. A pearl. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. margaritique. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Margaric. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. margaritifer; margarita pearl + ferre to bear: cf. F. margaritifère. ] Producing pearls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; pearl-like. ] (Min.) A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Margaric + -one. ] (Chem.) The ketone of margaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. -ized p. pr. & vb. n. -izing ] [ (J. J. Lloyd) Margary, inventor of the process + -ize. ] To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small American wild cat (Felis wiedi syn. Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. marge. See Margin. ] Border; margin; edge; verge. [ Poetic ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. See Margin. ] A margin; border; brink; edge. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The beached margent of the sea. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To enter or note down upon the margin of a page; to margin. [ Obs. ] Mir. for Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. margine, margent, L. margo, ginis. Cf. March a border, Marge. ] 1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: The part of a page at the edge left uncovered in writing or printing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Com.) The difference between the cost and the selling price of an article. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Brokerage) Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. It is usually less than the full value of the security purchased, in which case it may be qualified by the portion of the full value required to be deposited; as, to buy stocks on 50% margin. N. Biddle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. --
Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See 2d Gauge. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Border; brink; verge; brim; rim. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Margined p. pr. & vb. n. Marginging. ] 1. To furnish with a margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enter in the margin of a page. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) An account with a securities brokerage in which the broker extends credit. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. marginal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to a margin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Written or printed in the margin; as, a marginal note or gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. At the lower limit; barely sufficient; as, of marginal utility. [ PJC ]

n. (Economics) The increase in total cost of production as a result of producing one more unit of output; since certain ovrhead costs are fixed, the marginal cost is almost aways less than the total per-unit cost of production averaged over all units produced.
Syn. -- incremental cost, differential cost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. ] Marginal notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the property of being marginal or on the fringes. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. In the margin of a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a marginal{ 3 } manner; barely sufficiently; almost not; as, marginally useful. [ PJC ]

v. t. To furnish with a distinct margin; to margin. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. marginatus, p. p. of marginare to margin. See Margin, n. ] Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Same as Marginate, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Stock market) A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement; -- caused by the decline in market prices of a security or commodity purchased on margin{ 5 }.
Syn. -- call. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. Having a margin. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Bordered with a distinct line of color. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ NL., dim. of L. margo, marginis, a margin. ] (Zool.) A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. margo, -ginis, margin + caedere to cut. ] (Bot.) Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pg. amargoso bitter. ] (Bot.) A large tree of the genus Melia (Melia Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The Melia Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic. [ 1913 Webster ]

The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies. Sir S. Baker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. markgraf, prop., lord chief justice of the march; mark bound, border, march + graf earl, count, lord chief justice; cf. Goth. gagrëfts decree: cf. D. markgraaf, F. margrave. See March border, and cf. Landgrave, Graff. ] 1. Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. margraviat. ] The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. markgräfin: cf. F. margrafine. ] The wife of a margrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a pearl, a daisy. See Margarite. ] (Bot.) The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin. ] [ Written also oleomargarin. ] 1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An artificial butter made by emulsifying a fatty oil with more or less milk and water; it was formerly made predominantly from animal fats, but now is made predominantly or exclusively from vegetable oils, sometimes mixed with animal fats. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]