n. Crude tartar. See Argol. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The adjutant bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Mongolian. ] (Zool.) A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or Ovis argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The bearded argali is the aoudad. See Aoudad. The name is also applied to the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains. See Bighorn. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Named from the inventor, Aimé Argand of Geneva. ] A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A genus of venomous ticks which attack men and animals. The famous Persian Argas, also called Miana bug, is Argas Persicus; that of Central America, called talaje by the natives, is Argas Talaje. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bargayn, bargany, OF. bargaigne, bargagne, prob. from a supposed LL. barcaneum, fr. barca a boat which carries merchandise to the shore; hence, to traffic to and fro, to carry on commerce in general. See Bark a vessel. ] 1. An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration. [ 1913 Webster ]

A contract is a bargain that is legally binding. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

And whon your honors mean to solemnize
The bargain of your faith. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap. [ 1913 Webster ]

She was too fond of her most filthy bargain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bargain and sale (Law), a species of conveyance, by which the bargainor contracts to convey the lands to the bargainee, and becomes by such contract a trustee for and seized to the use of the bargainee. The statute then completes the purchase; i. e., the bargain vests the use, and the statute vests the possession. Blackstone. --
Into the bargain, over and above what is stipulated; besides. --
To sell bargains, to make saucy (usually indelicate) repartees. [ Obs. ] Swift. --
To strike a bargain, to reach or ratify an agreement. “A bargain was struck.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Contract; stipulation; purchase; engagement. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ OE. barganien, OF. bargaigner, F. barguigner, to hesitate, fr. LL. barcaniare. See Bargain, n. ] To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. [ 1913 Webster ]

So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bargained (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Bargaining. ] To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bargain away, to dispose of in a bargain; -- usually with a sense of loss or disadvantage; as, to bargain away one's birthright. “The heir . . . had somehow bargained away the estate.” G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bargaigné, p. p. See Bargain, v. i. ] (Law) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes a bargain; -- sometimes in the sense of bargainor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who makes a bargain, or contracts with another; esp., one who sells, or contracts to sell, property to another. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cargaison, Sp. cargazon, LL. cargare to load. See rgo. ] A cargo. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. escargotière, fr. escargot snail. ] A nursery of snails. [ Obs. ] Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Gargle, Gargarize. ] To gargle; to rinse. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Gargantua, an allegorical hero of Rabelais. ] Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gargarisme, L. gargarisma. See Gargarize. ] (Med.) A gargle. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. gargarizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. margarate. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. margarique. See Margarite. ] Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Margaric acid. (a) (Physiol. Chem.) A fatty body, crystallizing in pearly scales, and obtained by digesting saponified fats (soaps) with an acid. It was formerly supposed to be an individual fatty acid, but is now known to be simply an intimate mixture of stearic and palmitic acids. (b) (Chem.) A white, crystalline substance, C17H34O2 of the fatty acid series, intermediate between palmitic and stearic acids, and obtained from the wax of certain lichens, from cetyl cyanide, and other sources. Called also heptadecanoic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. margarine. See Margarite. ] (Physiol. Chem.) A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and tripalmitin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F.; see margarin. ] 1. A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

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). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Margarin. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. margarita, Gr. &unr_; a pearl; cf. F. marguerite. ] 1. A pearl. [ Obs. ] Peacham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Min.) A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. margaritique. ] (Physiol. Chem.) Margaric. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. margaritifer; margarita pearl + ferre to bear: cf. F. margaritifère. ] Producing pearls. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; pearl-like. ] (Min.) A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Margaric + -one. ] (Chem.) The ketone of margaric acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. -ized p. pr. & vb. n. -izing ] [ (J. J. Lloyd) Margary, inventor of the process + -ize. ] To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called . [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small American wild cat (Felis wiedi syn. Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin. ] [ Written also oleomargarin. ] 1. A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An artificial butter made by emulsifying a fatty oil with more or less milk and water; it was formerly made predominantly from animal fats, but now is made predominantly or exclusively from vegetable oils, sometimes mixed with animal fats. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ Oleomargarine was wrongly so named, as it contains no margarin proper, but olein, palmitin, and stearin, a mixture of palmitin and stearin having formerly been called margarin by mistake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ So called from Pargas, in Finland. ] (Min.) A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. sargazo seaweed. ] (Bot.) The gulf weed. See under Gulf. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sargasso Sea, a large tract of the North Atlantic Ocean where sargasso in great abundance floats on the surface. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] A genus of algae including the gulf weed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who gazes at the stars; an astrologer; sometimes, in derision or contempt, an astronomer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidae. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and Astroscopus guttatus. So called from the position of the eyes, which look directly upward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction. [ 1913 Webster ]