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The sheath of the upper mandible of a bird.

A document used in shipping goods by sea. In the case of free goods the shipping notes are the receiving note, addressed by the shipper to the chief officer of the vessel, requesting him to receive on board specified goods, and a receipt for the mate to sign, on receiving whose signature it is called the mate's receipt…

knot which slips along the rope or line around which it is made.

Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose. [Low]

To snivel; to cry or whine. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

Filth; abomination. [Obs.] To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.

Foul with snot; hence, mean; dirty. -- Snort"ti*ly, adb. -- Snot"ti*ness, n.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone. Sphenotic bone (Anat.), a bone on the anterior side of the auditory capsule of many fishes, and connected with, or adjoining, the sphenoid bone.

The dissection, or anatomy, of the viscera.

A photograph taken upon a tin plate; a tintype.

A stegnotic medicine; an astringent.

A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

A rescript. Bouvier.

Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, the subnotochordal rod.

A slender knife for use in the operation of tenotomy.

The division of a tendon, or the act of dividing a tendon.

A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.

A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women. A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot. Sir W. Scott.

See Impatiens.