Emily Dickinson Lexicon

E-MAR'GIN-ATE, or E-MAR'GIN-A-TED, a. [Fr. marge; L. margo, whence emargino.]

1. In botany, notched in a peculiar manner at the apex; applied to the leaf, petal or stigma.
2. In mineralogy, having all the edges of the primitive form truncated, each by one face. Cleaveland.