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The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.

Of or pertaining to the mammæ or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

Anagrammatism.

See Monogrammic.

Monogrammic.

Mohammedan.

Mohammedanism.

One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.

A punster.

Of or pertaining to a parallelogram; parallelogrammic.

Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people.

Situated under the mammæ; as, submammary inflammation.

The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

Containing three letters or characters, or three sets of letters or characters.

The llama.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

der, number, and case, both words forming a clause by themselves and being unconnected, grammatically, with the rest of the sentence; as, Tarquinio regnante, Pythagoras venit, i. e., Tarquinius reigning, Pythagoras came.

Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.

Capable of being inflamed or kindled; combustible; inflammable. Ure.

The accidents, of inflections of words; the rudiments of grammar. Milton.