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the thirty-first of the same month, in each year; -- so called from the festival of St. Hilary, January 13th.

Situated below the axil, as a bud.

Under the lower jaw; submaxillary; as, the inframaxillary nerve.

Insular. [Obs.] Howell.

Situated within or between the axils of leaves.

Inserted or introduced among others in the calendar; as, an intercalary month, day, etc.; -- now applied particularly to the odd day (Feb. 29) inserted in the calendar of leap year. See Bissextile, n.

An intermaxilla.

Between the petals of a flower.

Interstellar.

Situated below the point where a leaf joins the stem.

Jocular; jocose; sportive. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamellæ; lamellar.

Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.

Filled with spongy pith; pithy. Medullary groove (Anat.), a groove, in the epiblast of the vertebrate blastoderm, the edges of which unite, making a tube (the medullary canal) from which the brain and spinal cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exoge…

One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.

Same as 2d Molar.

Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished. [R.] Lamb.