Definition of margin

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

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Note :: Note (n.) A brief remark; a marginal comment or explanation; hence, an annotation on a text or author; a comment; a critical, explanatory, or illustrative observation..
Margined :: Margined (a.) Having a margin.
Encrinoidea :: Encrinoidea (n. pl.) That order of the Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea..
Bushwhacking :: Bushwhacking (n.) Traveling, or working a way, through bushes; pulling by the bushes, as in hauling a boat along the bushy margin of a stream..
Narrowly :: Narrowly (adv.) With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped..
Basion :: Basion (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.
Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Having but a little margin; having barely sufficient space, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority..
Radiant :: Radiant (a.) Having a raylike appearance, as the large marginal flowers of certain umbelliferous plants; -- said also of the cluster which has such marginal flowers..
Rhopalium :: Rhopalium (n.) One of the marginal sensory bodies of medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Margin :: Margin (n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty..
Marginging :: Marginging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Margi.
Involuted :: Involuted (a.) Turned inward at the margin, as the exterior lip of the Cyprea..
Brim :: Brim (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border..
Cycloidei :: Cycloidei (n. pl.) An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and salmon. The group is now regarded as artificial..
Inframarginal :: Inframarginal (a.) Below the margin; submarginal; as, an inframarginal convolution of the brain..
Spurt :: Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur..
Rim :: Rim (n.) The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin..
Ammonite :: Ammonite (n.) A fossil cephalopod shell related to the nautilus. There are many genera and species, and all are extinct, the typical forms having existed only in the Mesozoic age, when they were exceedingly numerous. They differ from the nautili in having the margins of the septa very much lobed or plaited, and the siphuncle dorsal. Also called serpent stone, snake stone, and cornu Ammonis..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow..
Helix :: Helix (n.) The incurved margin or rim of the external ear. See Illust. of Ear.
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