margent (‘margin’ is not a S. word)
1.
edge, border, brink
MND. II. i. 85
“the beached of the
sea,”
Compl. 39.
2.
margin of a page of a
book; hence, commentary (from the fact that the
margin is used for a commentary on the text) Ham. V. ii. 162; esp. of
the eyes as ‘illuminating’ the
countenance LLL. II. i. 244,
Rom. I. iii. 86
“written in the of his
eyes,”
Lucr. 102.