Search the Dictionary

Pertaining to the temple; temporal.

A form of phonographic recorder and reproducer adapted for use in dictation, as in business.

memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.

A writer of epitaphs. Nash.

Relating to, or of the nature of, an epitaph. The noble Pericles in his epitaphian speech. Milton. Epitaphial Latin verses are not to be taken too literally. Lowell.

Pertaining to an epitaph; epitaphian. -- n.

An epitapher.

A public storehouse.

he columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes. -- n.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

A small portion of liquor left in a glass after drinking. "Bumpers around and no heeltaps." Sheridan.

Having seven leaves.

A plant of the genus Verbascum (V. Thapsus); the common mullein. [Also high-taper and hag-taper.]

f the columella of the ear, which in many animals projects below the connection with the stapes. -- n.

Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between the stapes and the mediostapedial. -- n.

To place in juxtaposition. Huxley.

To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose. Derham.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.

Pertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella. -- n.

Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.