Search the Dictionary

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

Of or pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. -- n.

Below the sternum; as, the infrasternal depression, or pit of the stomach.

Below the temple; below the temporal bone.

Below a trochlea, or pulley; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

To inclose, as in a mew or cage. [R.] "Inmew the town below." Beau. & Fl.

ing or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

fill the upper part of the siphon, and ceasing when, by running through it, it has fallen below the orifice of the upper part of the siphon in the reservoir.

or chargé d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

wer; firmness; inflexibility; as, to rule with a rod of iron. Bar iron. See Wrought iron (below). -- Bog iron, bog ore; limonite. See Bog ore, under Bog. -- Cast iron (Metal.), an impure variety of iron, containing from three to six percent of carbon, part of which is united with a part of the iron, as a carbide, and…

In the Middle Ages, armor for the legs below the knees. [Written also giambeux.] Chaucer.

A callous tumor on the leg of a horse, below the hock.

A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.

eeveless jacket worn over the armor in the 14th century. It fitted closely, and descended below the hips. Dryden.

, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.

of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox.

One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. [Eng.] Hence:

See Legislatature, below.