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Having flat, or leaflike, gills, as the bivalve mollusks.

A printed programme of a play, with the parts assigned to the actors.

An ointment or pomatum made of black poplar buds. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.

The bar-tailed godwit. [Prov. Eng.]

Poor people; the poor. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.

The act of postillating; exposition of Scripture in preaching.

One who postillates; one who expounds the Scriptures verse by verse.

See Postiler.

A mill in which gunpowder is made.

See Premaxilla.

A melodic embellishment consisting of the quick alternation of a principal tone with an auxiliary tone above it, usually the next of the scale; --called also the inverted mordente.

nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.

Situated in front of the maxillary bones; pertaining to the premaxillæ; intermaxillary. -- n.

, Previous to the millennium.

The brill.

Tin extracted from the slag.

A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

Of or pertaining to the inner pterygoid plate, or pterygoid bone, and the lower jaw.