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A combining form meaning anterior, front; as, antero-posterior, front and back; antero-lateral, front side, anterior and at the side.

division of nudibranchiate Mollusca, in which the gills form a wreath or cluster upon the posterior part of the back. See Nudibranchiata, and Doris.

A prominence on the lower posterior portion of the concha of the external ear, opposite the tragus. See Ear.

The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

In Diptera, the rudimentary posterior wing.

at out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this day." South. -- To beat the dust. (Man.) (a) To take in too little ground with the fore legs, as a horse. (b) To perform curvets too precipitately or too low. -- To beat the hoof, to walk; to go on fo…

To hand down; to transmit. To bequeath posterity somewhat to remember it. Glanvill.

en away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill. She put up the bill in her parlor window. Dickens.

To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide. It seems so preposterous a thing . . . that they do not easily bring themselves to it. Locke. The nature of the things . . . would not suffer him to think otherwise, how, or whensoever, he is brought to reflect on them. Locke.

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.

A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples.

darkly. [Obs.] A wondrous vision which did close imply The course of all her fortune and posterity. Spenser.

ving the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillæ) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and we…

The state of being condemned. His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving.

f the occipital bone; -- sometimes called the anterior condylar foramen when a second, or posterior, foramen is present behind the condyle, as often happens in man.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.