Word Meanings - MANDIBULIFORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillæ of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• BITUME
  Bitumen. May.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• BITHEISM
  Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• BITARTRATE
  A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• MAXILLO-MANDIBULAR
  Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.
• BITTACLE
  A binnacle.
• BITERNATE
  Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.
• BITTERBUMP
  the butterbump or bittern.
• MAXILLIFORM
  Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.
• BITANGENT
  Possessing the property of touching at two points. -- n.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• BITTOR; BITTOUR
  The bittern. Dryden.
• HOBIT
  A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
• BITE
  bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
• REHIBITION
  The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• INHIBITORY
  Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
• PREMAXILLA
  A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
• ARBITRESS
  A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
• TRILOBITE
  Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
• DISCUBITORY
  Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
• PREORBITAL
  a. Situated in front or the orbit.
• CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
  A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
• TEMPOROMAXILLARY
  Of or pertaining to both the temple or the temporal bone and the maxilla.
• EXHIBITION
  The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.