margin (marjin)

t. [F. marginer = Sp. Pg. marginar = It. margin are, The ice-born rivers were margined occasionally with spires of discolored ice. Kane, Sec. Grinnell Exp., II. 150. 2. To enter in the margin, as a note in a book. - To margin up, to put up margins, as a provision against lo by a broker who has purchased and holds stocks, etc., on behalf of a customer; cover lo on account of depreciation of prices. The concern then had $42,500,000 locked up on the Bourse, having trebled its liabilities in the vain attempt to margin up after a fall begun in September, 1881. S Amer. Economist, III. 176. marg i marginal (mär'ji-nal), a. [= F. marginal = Sp. Pg. marginal = It. margin ale, To come into the dim reflexion of hollow antiquities sold by the seeming bulk, and there be fain to club quotations with Men whose learning and belief lies in marginal stuff. ings. Milton, Church-Government, ii., Pref. The pa age itself is set down in the marginal notes. Pope, Temple of Fame, Adv't. Inner marginal cell. See inner. - Marginal bodies, marginal vesicles, in hydroid polyps, differentiated sen organs attached to the edge of the umbrella. Those which are pigmented are supposed to have a visual function, those which have hard concretions to be auditory. (See cut under lithocyst.) Different kinds of marginal bodies have special names. - Marginal bones or o icles, supernumerary phalanges lying along the inner or the outer border of the flipper of an ichthyosaur. (See cut under Ichthyosauri a.) The marginal bones furnish a remark able instance of more than the normal five digits of vertebrates.-Marginal in entom., space of the wing anterior to the marginal vein and attaining the apical margin.- Marginal fingert, the index-finger. Would I had seen thee graved with thy great sire, Ere lived to have men's marginal fingers point At Charalois, as a lamented story! Mas singer and Field , Fatal Dowry, iii. 1. Marginal fringes, in ornith. See fringe . - Marginal gemmation. See gemmation . - Marginal gyrus. See gyrus.-Marginal line, in entom ., a variously waved or angulated line running acro the anterior wing near the apical margin, distinguished in many moths. - Marginal lobe, lobule. See lobe . - Marginal notes, notes printed on the front margin or fore edge of the leaf. Often called side notes. - Marginal vein or nervure, in entom ., a vein of an insect's wing, extending more or le longitudinally 3629 toward the apical margin. It may arise from the pterostigma and form a curved line, as in some Hymenoptera (in which case it is also called the radial vein ), or it may be a posterior fork of the costal vein, as in certain Diptera, - Marginal vesicles. See marginal bodies. marginalia (mär-ji-nā'li-ä), n. pl. [NL., neut. pl. of marginal is, marginal: see marginal.] 1. Marginal notes. -2. In sponges, spicules forming a collar round the osculum. F. E. Schulze. marginalize (mär'ji-nal-iz), v.; pret. and pp. marginalized, ppr. marginalizing. [ bishop Leighton] similarly marginalized. F. Jacox, Literary Life, p. 104. II. in trans. To make marginal notes. [Rare.] Byron could marginalize with similar fertility and facility. F. Jacox, Literary Life, p. 112. marginally (mär'ji-nal-i), adv . In the margin, as of a book.