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in any respect a fringe; a line of objects along a border or edge; a border; an edging; a margin; a confine. The confines of grace and the fringes of repentance. Jer. Taylor.

The margin of the head, behind the bill of birds, often bearing rigid bristles.

used as the treble clef, and has gradually changed into the character represented in the margin. See Clef. G# (G sharp) is a tone intermediate between G and A.

An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. All this, without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. T. Baker.

The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.

Border; edge; margin. "Hem of the sea." Shak.

Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods. [The sing. hemorrhoid is rarely used.]

See Ileac, 1. [R.] Iliac crest, the upper margin of the ilium. -- Iliac passion. See Ileus. -- Iliac region, a region of the abdomen, on either side of the hypogastric regions, and below the lumbar regions.

lants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in æstivation.

To begin (a line or lines) at a greater or less distance from the margin; as, to indent the first line of a paragraph one em; to indent the second paragraph two ems more than the first. See Indentation, and Indention.

A notch or recess, in the margin or border of anything; as, the indentations of a leaf, of the coast, etc.

Notched along the margin with a different color, as the feathers of some birds. Indented line (Fort.), a line with alternate long and short faces, with salient and receding angles, each face giving a flanking fire along the front of the next.

Having the gills on the sides of the body, under the margin of the mantle; belonging to the Inferobranchiata.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

d the stem; -- said of the pair of stipules at the base of a petiole when united by those margins next the petiole, thus seeming to form a single stipule between the petiole and the stem or branch; -- often confounded with interpetiolar, from which it differs essentially in meaning.

A continuous marginal covering of sporangia, in certain ferns, as in the common brake, or the cup-shaped processes of the filmy ferns.

Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea.

The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.

Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.

The external margin of the aperture of a shell. See Univalve.