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Of or pertaining to the jaw. Gnathic index, in a skull, the ratio of the distance from the middle of the nasofrontal suture to the basion (taken equal to 100), to the distance from the basion to the middle of the front edge of the upper jaw; -- called also alveolar index. Skulls with the gnathic index below 98 are orth…

The ramus of the lower jaw of a bird as far as it is naked; -- commonly used in the plural.

Any one of the mouth appendages of the Arthropoda. They are known as mandibles, maxillæ, and maxillipeds.

Flattering; deceitful. [Obs.]

A gnathopodite or maxilliped. See Maxilliped.

Any leglike appendage of a crustacean, when modified wholly, or in part, to serve as a jaw, esp. one of the maxillipeds.

One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs.

t with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.

See Juggernaut.

beneath the wheels of this car. It is now known that any death within the temple of Jagannath is considered to render the place unclean, and any spilling of blood in the presence of the idol is a pollution.

Long-jawed. Huxley.

conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

Cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.

one of the Nematognathi.

An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid.

Orthognathous.

The quality or state of being orthognathous. Huxley.

ll, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to Ant: prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.