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Lateral flattening of the tibia.

Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

One of the lateral elements in the centra of the vertebræ in some fossil batrachians.

One of the lateral pieces of a somite of an insect.

The antero-lateral piece which articulates the sternum of birds.

A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. Quain. Dunglison.

Having hairs branching out laterally, like the parts of a feather.

Anciently, a kind of battle-ax with a long handle; later, an ax or hatchet with a short handle, and a head variously patterned; -- used by soldiers, and also by sailors in boarding a vessel.

inherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions (11 Peters (U. S.) 102). The later cases have excepted from its domain the development and administration of private law. Modern political science defines the power as a branch of internal administration in the exercise of which the executive should move with…

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

To date after the real time; as, to postdate a contract, that is, to date it later than the time when it was in fact made.

Later in time; hence, later in the order of proceeding or moving; coming after; -- opposed to prior. Hesiod was posterior to Homer. Broome.

The state of being later or subsequent; as, posteriority of time, or of an event; -- opposed to priority.

- (posterior, back; as, postero-inferior, situated back and below; postero-lateral, situated back and at the side.

To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinitely. His praise postponed, and never to be paid. Cowper.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

ast of the primitive streak. It is not connected with the medullary groove, which appears later and in front of it. -- Primitive plane (Spherical Projection), the plane upon which the projections are made, generally coinciding with some principal circle of the sphere, as the equator or a meridian. -- Primitive rocks…

. Egyptian privet. See Lawsonia. -- Evergreen privet, a plant of the genus Rhamnus. See Alatern. -- Mock privet, any one of several evergreen shrubs of the genus Phillyrea. They are from the Mediterranean region, and have been much cultivated for hedges and for fancifully clipped shrubberies.

A lateral cavity of the prosencephalon; a lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Having male sexual organs while young, and female organs later in life. -- Pro*tan"trism, n.