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An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

Pertaining to craniometry.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

One skilled in, or who practices, cranioscopy. It was found of equal dimension in a literary man whose skull puzzied the cranioscopists. Coleridge.

Scientific examination of the cranium.

A comprehensive division of the Vertebrata, including all those that have a skull.

The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.

The skull of an animal; especially, that part of the skull, either cartilaginous or bony, which immediately incloses the brain; the brain case or brainpan. See Skull.

Pertaining to the epicranium; as epicranial muscles.

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of pants (Geraniaceæ) which includes the genera Geranium, Pelargonium, and many others.

A valuable astringet obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

Bearing grain, or seeds like grain. Humble.

Formed like of corn.

Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

New Hampshire; -- a nickname alluding to its mountains, which are chiefly of granite.

Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.