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An insect having mandibles.

Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillæ of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo- mandibular nerve.

Having tentacles without vibratile cilia. Carpenter.

Of or pertaining to the Nudibranchiata. -- n.

A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.

Same as Nudibranch.

Obedient. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Fitted to excite hatred; hateful. [Obs.] Bale.

Capable of being rent or torn.

Suasible. [Obs.] Wyclif (James iii. 17).

Incredible. Bacon.

The quality or state of being vendible, or salable.

f being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable. The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.

gradation. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

ditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient theaters to propel the voices of the actors, so as to render them audible to a great distance.

Addible.