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Teaching what is useful. "A chrestomathic school." Southey.

ction of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles.

Customary. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]

Usually. [Obs.] Milton.

In a customary manner; habitually.

Quality of being customary.

y, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. Even now I met him With customary compliment. Shak. A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South.

A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke,

A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea.

The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea.

all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [Written also Gnathostomata.]

Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.

An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture.

Same as Holostomatous.

Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells.

The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc.

A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.