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A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.] O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.

A child's name for mamma, mother.

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. "The whole united armament of Greece." Glover.

An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]

A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [Obs.] S. Richardson.

The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.

Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. "The circumambient heaven." J. Armstrong.

To walk round about. -- Cir`cum*am`bu*la"tion, n.

The act of disarming.

Fixed foundation; established basis. [Obs.] Custom is the . . . firmament of the law. Jer. Taylor.

Pertaining to the firmament; celestial; being of the upper regions. Dryden.

A grand mother.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

Among the Mohammedans, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.

Situated under the mammæ; as, submammary inflammation.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.

of Vertebrata in which the embryo develops an allantois. It includes reptiles, birds, and mammals.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.