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Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.

icans, or to the descendants of Englishmen in America. -- n. A descendant from English ancestors born in America, or the United States. Anglo-Danish, a. Of or pertaining to the English and Danes, or to the Danes who settled in England. Anglo-Indian, a. Of or pertaining to the English in India, or to the English and Ea…

An ancestor; a progenitor. [Obs.]

ime. -- Heir apparent (Law), one whose to an estate is indefeasible if he survives the ancestor; -- in distinction from presumptive heir. See Presumptive.

as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. Ayliffe.

-- Ascending line (Geneol.), the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, etc., are in the line direct ascending. -- Ascending node having, that node of the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also ca…

Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remote rather than to near ancestors; reversion to the original form.

gment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4. The earl marshal attached Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

Ancestry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e in full bearing; a tree past bearing. [His mother] in travail of his bearing. R. of Gloucester.

To pray; also, to offer; to proffer. [Obs.] R. of Gloucester. Chaucer.

A grandfather, or ancestor. "His great belsire Brute." [Obs.] Drayton.

Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. A friend of our own blood. Waller. Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half bl…

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

s food; delicacies; dainties. Shak. Cates for which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.

by some secret power, or by that which gives pleasure; to allay; to soothe. Music the fiercest grief can charm. Pope.

A cognomen formerly prefixed to his name by the oldest son, until he succeeded to his ancestral titles, or was knighted; as, Childe Roland.