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A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal. [Obs.]

A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. 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 palmiti…

s 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 teipalmitin.

Artificial butter; oleomargarine.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

A pearl. [Obs.] Peacham.

Margaric.

Producing pearls.

A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.

The ketone of margaric acid.

Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid. [Obs.]

To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called Mar"ga*ry's flu"id [-riz]).

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

An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.] The beached margent of the sea. Shak.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.