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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]).

Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece. Megarian, or Megaric, school, a school of philosophy established at Megara, after the death of Socrates, by his disciples, and remarkable for its logical subtlety.

A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent. [Obs.] Kepler. Hutton.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

Wrong understanding; misconstruction. [Obs.] Spenser.

Sullen; displeased. [Obs.]

The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.

subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by t…

one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonous fellow; a miser. Chaucer. A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope.

Niggardliness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Somewhat niggard.

The quality or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.