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unded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.

Originally, an explanatory note in the margin of the Bible, so called because written after the text; hence, a marginal note; a comment. Langton also made postils upon the whole Bible. Foxe.

One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin. Sir T. Browne.

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.

. -- Seaside potato (Bot.), Ipomoea Pes-Capræ, a kind of morning-glory with rounded and emarginate or bilobed leaves. [West Indies] -- Sweet potato (Bot.), a climbing plant (Ipomoea Balatas) allied to the morning-glory. Its farinaceous tubers have a sweetish taste, and are used, when cooked, for food. It is probably a…

A proof taken on a press, esp. to show impression, margins, color, etc.

Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers. Radiant energy (Physics), energy given out or transmitted by radiation, as in the case of light and radiant heat. -- Radiant heat, proceeding in right lines, or direc…

Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.

A border; edge; margin. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A radiating part of the flower or plant; the marginal florets of a compound flower, as an aster or a sunflower; one of the pedicels of an umbel or other circular flower cluster; radius. See Radius.

Valvate with the margins curved outwardly; -- said of the

ible in which brief explanations, and references to parallel passages, are printed in the margin of the text.

A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken; also, any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate.

Having a slightly undulating margin; -- said of leaves.

ded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell.

A suborder of Medusæ which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix.

One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusæ belonging to the Discophora.

Sieboldii); a bone whale. Pygmy right whale (Zoöl.), a small New Zealand whale (Neobalæna marginata) which is only about sixteen feet long. It produces short, but very elastic and tough, whalebone.

To do justice to. [Obs.] Relieve [marginal reading, righten] the opressed. Isa. i. 17.

The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.