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The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

Same as Paragnathus.

Having both mandibles of equal length, the tips meeting, as in certain birds.

One of the two lobes which form the lower lip, or metastome, of Crustacea.

A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi. -- n.

An order of fishes generally having the maxillary bone united with the premaxillary, and the articular united with the dentary.

Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.

A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.

Prognathous.

Projection of the jaws. -- Prog"na*thy, n.

Having the jaws projecting beyond the upper part of the face; - - opposed to orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic. Their countenances had the true prognathous character. Kane.

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

Any bird with a schizognathous palate.

The schizognathous birds.

the condition of having a schizognathous palate.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

handle of a scythe; a snead. [Variously written in England snead, sneed, sneath, sneeth, snathe, etc.; in Scotland written sned.]

To lop; to prune. [Prov. Eng.]