Mar"ga*rite (?), n. [L. margarita, Gr. a pearl; cf. F. marguerite.]
1.
A pearl.
Peacham.
2. Min.
A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.
© Webster 1913.
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