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An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.

The upper margin of a hoof; a coronet.

or errors of; to amend; to set right; as, to correct the proof (that is, to mark upon the margin the changes to be made, or to make in the type the changes so marked).

f what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin.

Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops.

Having a comblike margin, as a ctenoid scale.

group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial.

Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.

Having the gills around the margin of the body, as certain limpets.

fish scale which is thin and shows concentric lines of growth, without serrations on the margin.

of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial.

Having a variously cut or incised margin; -- said of leaves.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

A plate with an opening, which is generally circular, used in instruments to cut off marginal portions of a beam of light, as at the focus of a telescope.

Having the margin wide and spreading.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

Any sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; extreme verge; as, the edge of a table, a precipice. Upon the edge of yonder coppice. Shak. In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle. Milton. Pursue even to the very edge of destruction. Sir W. Scott.

a which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

A regular, curving indenture in the margin of anything. See Scallop. "So many jags or escalops." Ray.

sh out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.