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Having a small or narrow mouth; -- said of certain small ground snakes (Opoterodonta), which are unable to dilate their jaws.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.

Union by means of bone; the complete closing up and obliteration of sutures.

Same as Synosteosis.

n aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

gy; professing or practicing astrology. "Astrologi learning." Hudibras. "Astrological prognostication." Cudworth. -- As`tro*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow. My auguring mind assures the same success. Dryden.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

or qualities, additional matter, or a new character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.

A Brazilian dipterous insect of the genus Trypeta, which lays its eggs in the nostrils or in wounds of man and beast, where the larvæ do great injury.

A nostril or spiracle in the top of the head of a whale or other cetacean.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

A prognostic; an omen; a foreboding.

stone. Shak. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Gen. ii. 7.

rrhina, a division of Quadrumana, including the Old World monkeys and apes which have the nostrils close together and turned downward. See Monkey.

Examination of the brain for the diagnosis of diseas; esp., the act or process of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

a Jew, who attempted to unite the doctrines of Christ with the opinions of the Jews and Gnostics. Hook.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.