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el which is pronounced with a diminished aperture of the lips, or with contraction of the cavity of the mouth. -- Close to the wind (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.

A stricture or narrowing, as of a canal, cavity, or orifice.

A cavity.

Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen. Coeliac artery (Anat.), the artery which issues from the aorta just below the diaphragm; -- called also coeliac axis. -- Coeliac flux, Coeliac passion (Med.), a chronic flux or diarrhea of undigested food.

See Body cavity, under Body.

A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton.

Hollowness; concavity.

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

to shrink. Such things as constrict the fibers. Arbuthnot. Membranous organs inclosing a cavity which their contraction constrict. Todd & Bowman.

to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in function. There may be one, two, or more.

An instrument (chisel or shears) to cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

Shaped like a cup; as, the cotyloid cavity, which receives the head of the thigh bone.

An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.

An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the cryps of Lieberk.

Any bag-shaped or tubular cavity, vessel, or organ, open only at one end.

r ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.

The cavity from which the earth for parapets, etc. (remblai), is taken.

A division of the Turbellaria in which the digestive cavity gives off lateral branches, which are often divided into smaller branchlets.