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oop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

Having the skull short in proportion to its breadth; shortheaded; -- in distinction from dolichocephalic.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

The point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull.

the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. -- Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. -- Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms. -- Cabbage t…

A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.

small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

Form or development of the skull; as, the races of man differ greatly in cephalism.

allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [R.] "Yellow, chapless skulls." Shak.

n Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead Indians.

n, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [Low] Knowles.

erm applied to various columnlike parts; as, the columnella, or epipterygoid bone, in the skull of many lizards; the columella of the ear, the bony or cartilaginous rod connecting the tympanic membrane with the internal ear.

The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.

Of or pertaining to the top of the head or skull.