Definition of margin

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Margin (n.) Something allowed, or reserved, for that which can not be foreseen or known with certainty..

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Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..
Emarginated :: Emarginated (a.) Having the margin interrupted by a notch or shallow sinus.
Calycozoa :: Calycozoa (n. pl.) A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An aboral sucker serves for attachment. The interior is divided into four large compartments. See Lucernarida.
Crenated :: Crenated (a.) Having the margin cut into rounded teeth notches, or scallops..
Labium :: Labium (n.) Inner margin of the aperture of a shell.
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary..
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..
Velarium :: Velarium (n.) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
Dilated :: Dilated (a.) Having the margin wide and spreading.
Margin :: Margin (n.) A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake..
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..
Marginate :: Marginate (n.) Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.
Limb :: Limb (n.) The graduated margin of an arc or circle, in an instrument for measuring angles..
Imbricated :: Imbricated (a.) Lying over each other in regular order, so as to break joints, like tiles or shingles on a roof, the scales on the leaf buds of plants and the cups of some acorns, or the scales of fishes; overlapping each other at the margins, as leaves in aestivation..
Ctenoidei :: Ctenoidei (n. pl.) A group of fishes, established by Agassiz, characterized by having scales with a pectinated margin, as in the perch. The group is now generally regarded as artificial..
Correction :: Correction (n.) That which is substituted in the place of what is wrong; an emendation; as, the corrections on a proof sheet should be set in the margin..
Parallel :: Parallel (n.) A character consisting of two parallel vertical lines (thus, ) used in the text to direct attention to a similarly marked note in the margin or at the foot of a page..
Postiler :: Postiler (n.) One who writers marginal notes; one who illustrates the text of a book by notes in the margin.
Lucernaria :: Lucernaria (n.) A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel..
Marge :: Marge (n.) Border; margin; edge; verge.
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