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1.       
   Margarine , n. [F.; see margarin.]
   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.
   Margarin.
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
         
       

2.       
   Oleomargarine , n. [L. oleum oil + E. margarine, margarin.] [Written also oleomargarin.]
   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
   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