[as if ad. L. *ēmarginātiōn-em, n. of action f. ēmargināre to EMARGINATE.]
1. The process of cleansing wounds or sores by removing the morbid matter on the edges.
1676. in Bullokar.
1678–96. in Phillips.
1721. in Bailey.
1882. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
2. Notching or indentation of the margin.
1834. McMurtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 251. They all have a widely opened, scarcely turbinated shell, with neither operculum, emargination, nor syphon.
1870. Rolleston, Anim. Life, 21. The sternum has a wide lateral emargination.
