Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Margarite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Margarite \Mar"ga*rite\, n. [L. margarita, Gr. ? a pearl; cf. F.
marguerite.]
1. A pearl. [Obs.] --Peacham.
2. (Min.) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica
and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.
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