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Situated in front of the temporal bone.

That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal. [R.]

Situated above the temporal bone or temporal fossa. -- n.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic] That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of cri…

Meanwhile; temporary.

vacity; spiritedness; as, he recited the story with great animation. Suspended animation, temporary suspension of the vital functions, as in persons nearly drowned.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

Extemporary; offhand. [R.] Dean Martin.

The person to whom goods are committed in trust, and who has a temporary possession and a qualified property in them, for the purposes of the trust. Blackstone.

The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. [U.S.]

ilding for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

f the branchial arches; basicranial, situated at the base of the cranium; basifacial, basitemporal, etc.

Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.

A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.…

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation. Camden.

s bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

lever bridge. See under Cantalever. -- Draw bridge. See Drawbridge. -- Flying bridge, a temporary bridge suspended or floating, as for the passage of armies; also, a floating structure connected by a cable with an anchor or pier up stream, and made to pass from bank to bank by the action of the current or other means…