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

Of or pertaining to a margin.

Marginal notes.

In the margin of a book.

Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.

Same as Marginate, a.

Having a margin. Hawthorne.

A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; -- said of fruits.

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

Having a double margin, as certain shells.

To take away the margin of.

Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.

In an emarginate manner.

The act of notching or indenting the margin, or the state of being so notched; also, a notch or shallow sinus in a margin.

Not having a distinctive margin or border. Grey.

Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain.

Situated within the margin. Loudon.

the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus.

odile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.