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g title (Print.), the title of a book or chapter continued from page to page on the upper margin.

Marginal anotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.

is not extensile. The body and tail are covered with overlapping scales, and the toes are margined. See Illust. under Skink.

The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

s stems, a spiked inflorescence, and long grasslike leaves which are usually rough on the margins and midrib. There are several hundred species.

One of the teeth in a serrate or serrulate margin.

One of the teeth in a serrulate margin.

A swimming leg (of an insect) having a fringe of hairs on the margin.

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.…

at 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.

el, consisting of two valves with a dissepiment between, and opening by sutures at either margin. The seeds are attached to both edges of the dissepiment, alternately upon each side of it.

Having the margin alternately curved inward and outward; having rounded lobes separated by rounded sinuses; sinuous; wavy.

The anterior prolongation of the margin of any gastropod shell for the protection of the soft siphon.

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

oöl.), any butterfly of the family Melitæidæ having crescent-shaped white spots along the margins of the red or brown wings. -- Spot lens (Microscopy), a condensing lens in which the light is confined to an annular pencil by means of a small, round diaphragm (the spot), and used in dark-field ilumination; -- called al…

dsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses.

The shore, especially the beach of a sea, ocean, or large lake; rarely, the margin of a navigable river. Chaucer. Strand birds. (Zoöl.) See Shore birds, under Shore. -- Strand plover (Zoöl.), a black-bellied plover. See Illust. of Plover. -- Strand wolf (Zoöl.), the brown hyena.

A long piece of timber, forming a margin or edge of any piece of construction; esp.:

The line, or seam, formed by the union of two margins in any part of a plant; as, the ventral suture of a legume.