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Set with stiff, slender bristles.

Of or pertaining to the styloid process and the maxilla.

Situated under the axilla, or armpit.

Situated under the maxilla, or lower jaw; inframaxillary; as, the submaxillary gland.

To beat livid, or black and blue. Wiseman.

A livid, or black and blue, mark; a blow; a bruise.

A drain or collection of filth. [Obs.] [Written also sulliage, and sullage.] Sir H. Wotton.

Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidæ).

The supermaxilla.

Supermaxillary.

Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

The upper jaw or maxilla.

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.

Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision. That sort of surveillance of which . . . the young have accused the old. Sir W. Scott.

One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.

The shoveler. [Local, U.S.]

ench. [Obs.] As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Shak.

One who swills.

See Swill, n., 1.

A humming bird (Docimastes ensiferus) having a very long, slender bill, exceeding the length of the body of the bird.