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Same as Epiglottic.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

Hook-billed; having the upper mandible longer than the lower.

A short poem treating concisely and pointedly of a single thought or event. The modern epigram is so contrived as to surprise the reader with a witticism or ingenious turn of thought, and is often satirical in character. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram Shak.

Writing epigrams; dealing in epigrams; as, an epigrammatical poet.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

To represent by epigrams; to express by epigrams.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

An epigrammatist. Jer. Taylor.

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

The science or study of epigraphs.

A student of, or one versed in, epigraphy.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

Adnate to the surface of the ovary, so as to be apparently inserted upon the top of it; -- said of stamens, petals, sepals, and also of the disk.

nfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. [Written also jerupigia.]

Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

A director (usually one holding a number of directorships) who serves merely or mainly for the fee (in England, often a guinea) paid for attendance. [Colloq.]

A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.