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MARGGRAFISCH FIS'CHERN, .a village of Ger- 
many, in the principality of Bareuth, with a medicinal 
fp ring : one mile fouth of Hobenberg. 
MARGGRON'INGEN. See Groningen. 
MARGHINA'NI or Native of the Town of Marghinan, is 
the fur name of Borhaneddin Ali, fon of Aboubekr, a 
great muflulman lawyer, who died in the year of the He¬ 
gira 591, or 1195 of the Chriftian sera. He is the author 
of a very celebrated work, entitled Hediat fit Fprou , or In¬ 
troduction to the Civil and Canon Law of the Mufful- 
mans, which has had a number of commentators. The 
fame author cotnpofed, for the benefit of pofterity, A Col¬ 
lection of juridical Decifions; and wrote another work, 
entitled, Bedaiat almobladi, or InltruCtion for Young Stu¬ 
dents, attributed to Abou Hafsan ul Marghinani, who died 
in the year 593, or 1197. There is alfo another book, 
which bears the title of Akdkiat al-ReJfoul, or Decifions of 
Mahomet 5 and is faid to have been written by Ali Ben 
Abderrazzak al-Marghinani. All thefe works appear to 
be the performances of one and the fame author, the above- 
named fon of Aboubekr. D'Herbelot's Biblioth. Orient. 
MARGIA'NA, in ancient geography, a country of 
Alia, along the river Margus, from which it derives its 
name. According to Ptolemy, it had Hyrcania on the 
weft, on the north Oxus, on the eaft Badtriana, and on 
the fouth Aria. The people who inhabited it were the 
Derbicoe, the Maffagetas, the Tafloni, the Parni, and the 
Dase. Its towns were Ariaca, Sina, Aratha, Argadris, 
Jafonium, Rhea, Antiochia, Guriano, and Niceai. Pliny 
gives us a very favourable notion of the fituation and fer¬ 
tility of this country. It now forms a part of Chorasan, 
which fee. 
MARGIA'NI, in modern geography, a town of Perfia, 
in the province of Comis: twenty-five miles north of 
Biftan. 
MARGIDU'NUM, in ancient geography, a place of 
Great Britain, fituated, according to the fixth Iter of An- 
tonine, between Verometum (near Willoughby) and Ad 
Pontum (near Southwell), Dr. Stukeley places it at 
Bridgeford ; Mr. Horlley, and fome other antiquaries, 
near Eaft Bridgeford. 
MARGIN, formerly written Margent, and in poeti¬ 
cal language Marge, f [ mar go , Lat. marge , Fr.] The 
border^ the brink ; the edge; the verge: 
An airy crowd came ruftiing where he flood. 
Which fill’d the margin of the fatal flood. Dryden. 
Never fince 
Met we on hill, in dale, foreft, or mead, 
Or on the beached margent of the fea. Skakefpeare. 
He drew his flaming fword, and ftruck 
At him fo fiercely, that the upper marge 
Of his fevenfold Ihield away it took. Fairy Queen. 
The edge of a page left blank, or filled with a fliort note. 
—Reconcile thole two places, which both you and the 
margins of our Bibles acknowledge to be parallel. Ham¬ 
mond. —He knows in law nor text nor margent. Swift. 
As much love in rhime 
• As would be cramm’d up in a fheet of paper 
Writ on both fides the leaf ,margent and all. Skakefpeare. 
The edge of a wound or fore.—All the advantage to be 
gathered from it is only from the evennefs of its margin ; 
the purpofe will be as fully anfwered by keeping that un¬ 
der only. Sharp's Surgery. 
MARGINAL, adj. Placed or written on the margin. 
—What remarks you find worthy of your riper obferva- 
tion note with a marginal Aar, as being worthy of your 
fecond review. Watts. 
MARGINATLD, or Margined, adj. Having a mar¬ 
gin. 
MaRGLINAN', a town of Turkeltan, at the union of 
a river of the fame name with the Sirr : eight miles fouth 
of Tafchkund, 
M A R 
MAGGOT', a river of America, which runs into the 
Miflifflppi in lat. 35. 38. N. 
MARGOT PO'RT, a maritime village on the north 
fide of the ifland of St. Domingo, in lat. 19. 4,8. N. nine 
leagues weft of Cape Francois. 
MARGOZ'ZA, a town of Italy, which gives name to 
a fmall lake near which it is fituated : forty miles north- 
.weft of Milan. 
MARGRAF'FEN NEIS'SIDEL, a town of Auftria: 
four miles north of EntzerftorfF. 
MARGRAVE, f. \marck and grajf, German.] A title 
of fovereignty in Germany; in its original import, keeper 
of the marches or borders.-—Three fuch mill-ftones mult 
fooner or later grind his Pruflian majefty to a mere mar¬ 
grave of Brandenburg. Cheflerfield. 
MARGRAVI'NE,/. A female title acquired by mar¬ 
rying a margrave. 
M AR'GRETH, a town of the duchy of Carinthia: 
four miles north-weft of Millftatt. 
M ARGUARSTEIN, a town of Bavaria, on the Acha: 
twenty-five miles weft of Salzburg, and ten fouth-weft of 
Traunftein. 
MARGUE, yi in botany. See Rhizophora. ’ 
M ARGUERI'TE, a river of America, which runs into 
lake Michigan in lat. 44. 2. N. Ion. 85. 34. W. 
MARGUERI'TE (St.), an ifland in the Mediterranean, 
near the coaft of France, nine miles from Antibes. Lat. 
43. 31. N. Ion. 7. 7. E, 
MARGUERI'TES, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Gard : four miles north-eaft of Nifmes, and 
twelve north-weft of Beaucaire. 
MARGUERI'TES (Ides of), iflands in the Mediterra¬ 
nean, near Ivica, one of which is large, and near Pic Nono, 
which advances into the fea, in the form of a cone, covered 
with trees. 
MARGUS, in ancient geography, a river of Mcefia, 
falling into the Danube, with a town of the fame name, 
now Kafolatz. 
MAR'GUT, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ardennes ; thirteen miles north-weft of Sedan. 
MAR'HAT and MARHAT'TAS. See MAHRATand 
Mahrattas, p. 146 of this volume. 
MARI'A, [Latin.] A woman’s name. 
MARFA, in ancient geography, a town of Italy, in Ve- 
netia; fituated on the Padus, towards the fouth-eaft, and 
very near Hadria. 
MARFA, a river of America, which runs into the 
Mifliflippi in lat. 37. 37. N. Ion. 90. 33. W. 
MARFA, a river of Honduras, which runs into the 
bay in lat. 15.40, N. Ion. 87. 15. W. 
MARFA, a town of South America, in the province 
of Carthagena : thirty-two miles weft of Carthagena. 
MARFA, or Sanc'ta Mari'a, an ifland of the Indian 
Ocean, lying about five miles eaft from Madagafcar. It 
is about twenty-feven miles long and five broad ; well wa¬ 
tered, and furrounded by rocks. The air is extremely 
moilt, for it rains almolt every day. It is inhabited by 
five or fix hundred negroes, but feldom vifited by fhips. 
MARI'A (St.), a confiderable town of South America, 
in the audience of Panama, built by the Spaniards after 
they had dilcovered the gold-mines near it, and foon after 
taken by the Englilh. It is feated at the bottom of the 
Gulf of St. Michael, at the mouth of a river of the fame 
name ; which is navigable, and the largeft that falls into 
the gulf. The Spaniards come here every year in the dry 
feafon, which continues three months, to gather the gold- 
duft out of the fands of the neighbouring ftreams; and 
carry away great quantities. Lat. 7. o.N. Ion. 148. 30. W. 
MARFA (St.), a handfoine and confiderable town of 
Spain, in Andalufia, with a fmall caftle. It was taken 
by the Englilh and Dutch in 1702, for the archduke of 
Auftria. It is feated on the Guadaleta, at the mouth of 
which is a tower and a clofe battery. Lat. 36. 35. N. 
Ion. 5. 33. W. 
MARI'A, 
