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Any parasitic entomostracan of the tribe Siphonostomata.

A tribe of lophobranch fishes having a tubular snout. The female carries the eggs in a ventral pouch.

ained; -- applied to a movement or passage the sounds of which are to sustained to the utmost of the nominal value of the time; also, to a passage the tones of which are to be somewhat prolonged or protacted.

Farthest south.

Farthest toward the south; southernmost. [R.] Milton.

A nobleman who possessed a starosty. [Poland]

A castle and domain conferred on a nobleman for life. [Poland] Brande & C.

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

Geostatic.

hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

Situated below the costas, or ribs; as, the subcostal muscles.

Situated under the periosteum. Subperiosteal operation (Surg.), a removal of bone effected without taking away the periosteum.

A salt of sulphostannic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H

Situated above, or on the outside of, the ribs.

That part of anatomy which treats of joints; arthrology.

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