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Having the edge or border cut or marked with segments of circles. See Scallop, n., 2.

one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidæ, and the suborder Palamedeæ. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The…

Land which borders on the sea; the seashore. Shak. You are near the sea marge of a land teeming with life. J. Burroughs.

Bordering upon, or being near, the sea; seaside; seacoast; as, a seaboard town.

The shore or border of the land adjacent to the sea or ocean. Also used adjectively.

The land bordering on, or adjacent to, the sea; the seashore. Also used adjectively.

Half deisticsl; bordering on deism. S. Miller.

To fix, as a precious stone, in a border of metal; to place in a setting; hence, to place in or amid something which serves as a setting; as, to set glass in a sash. And him too rich a jewel to be set In vulgar metal for a vulgar use. Dryden.

The margin, edge, verge, or border of a surface; especially (when the thing spoken of is somewhat oblong in shape), one of the longer edges as distinguished from the shorter edges, called ends; a bounding line of a geometrical figure; as, the side of a field, of a square or triangle, of a river, of a road, etc.…

, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening.

One of the tubes or folds of the mantle border of a bivalve or gastropod mollusk by which water is conducted into the gill cavity. See Illust. under Mya, and Lamellibranchiata.

A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantle border is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called also Siphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.

A tribe of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the body unarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.

Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything "Here in the skirts of the forest." Shak.

e of several species of arboreal edentates constituting the family Bradypodidæ, and the suborder Tardigrada. They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. Both jaws are furnished with teeth (see Illust. of Edentata), and the ears and tail are rudimentary. They inhabit South and Central America and Mexico.…

A suborder of serpents including those which have tubular erectile fangs, as the viper and rattlesnake. See Fang.

The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.

can butterfly (Erora læta) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue. -- Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity. -- Spring beetle (Zoöl.), a snapping…

The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.