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The bone or cartilage between the radiale and ulnare in the carpus, and between the tibiale and fibulare in the tarsus. It corresponds to the lunar in the carpus, and to a part of the astragalus in the tarsus of man and most mammals.

Between the nasal cavities; as, the internasal cartilage.

An interneural spine or cartilage.

Between the parietal bones or cartilages; as, the interparietal suture. -- n.

Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.

A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag. Chaucer. Tired as a jade in overloaden cart. Sir P. Sidney.

To heave; to tilt, as a cart. [Prov. Eng.]

Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotracheal cartilage in the frog.

The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammal…

One who levees. Cartwright.

A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.

A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards. Knight.

The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way; the contents of a cart, barrow, or vessel; that which will constitute a cargo; lading.

A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations.

A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.

A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); -- called also carter, and whiff. marchpane.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist. Meckelian cartilage, the cartilaginous rod which forms the axis of the mandible; -- called also Meckel's cartilage.

An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.