Hypertext Webster Gateway: "margarine"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Margarine \Mar"ga*rine\, n. [F.]
1. Artificial butter; oleomargarine.

The word margarine shall mean all substances,
whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in
imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter
or not. --Margarine
Act, 1887 (50
& 51 Vict. c.
29).

2. Margarin.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

margarine
n : a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a
substitute for butter [syn: {margarin}, {oleo}, {oleomargarine},
{marge}]

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