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A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley.

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.

A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece in loading.

ork for pitching and tedding hay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

eck, the lower half of a door. -- Heck board, the loose board at the bottom or back of a cart. -- Heck box or frame, that which carries the heck in warping.

A slender bony or cartilaginous process developed from the heel bone of bats. It helps to support the wing membranes. See Illust. of Cheiropter.

Producing a different type of organism; developing into a different form of tissue, as cartilage which develops into bone. Haeckel.

t belongs; to the end of a course; to the full length; as, to drive a nail home; to ram a cartridge home. Wear thy good rapier bare and put it home. Shak.

onveying fluids, especially water, from a faucet, hydrant, or fire engine. Hose carriage, cart, or truck, a wheeled vehicle fitted for conveying hose for extinguishing fires. -- Hose company, a company of men appointed to bring and manage hose in the extinguishing of fires. [U.S.] -- Hose coupling, coupling with inter…

A low cart with three wheels, drawn by one horse.

Of or pertaining to the bony or cartilaginous arch which supports the tongue. Sometimes applied to the tongue itself. Hyoid arch (Anat.), the arch of cartilaginous or bony segments, which connects the base of the tongue with either side of the skull. -- Hyoid bone (Anat.), the bone in the base of the tongue, the middl…

ng both to the hyoidean arch and the mandible or lower jaw; as, the hyomandibular bone or cartilage, a segment of the hyoid arch which connects the lower jaw with the skull in fishes. -- n.

A hypobranchial bone or cartilage.

driasis. Hypochondriac region (Anat.), a region on either side of the abdomen beneath the cartilages of the false ribs, beside the epigastric, and above the lumbar, region.

One of the hypohyal bones or cartilages.

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

Situated between joints or articulations; as, interarticular cartilages and ligaments.

en crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

An interhemal spine or cartilage.

An interhyal ligament or cartilage.