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margent
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Definition:A margin; border; brink; edge. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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written in Latine, by the right worthie and famous Sir Thomas More knyght, and translated into Englishe by Raphe Robynson, sometime fellowe of Corpus Christi College in Oxford, and nowe by him at this seconde edition newlie perused and corrected, and also with diuers notes in the margent augmented. London. [1556].
advertisement at end of Roister Doister for the book Utopia by Sir Thomas More.
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The beached margent of the sea.
William Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Horatio: [aside to Hamlet] I knew you must be edified by the margent ere you had done.
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