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Anat.), a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones; the frontoparietal suture.

A hole or retreat onto which an animal may creep, to escape notice or danger.

To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve. Milton.

An instrument for making tracings of the outline or contour of profiles, moldings, etc.

l-known plant of the genus Taraxacum (T. officinale, formerly called T. Dens-leonis and Leontodos Taraxacum) bearing large, yellow, compound flowers, and deeply notched leaves.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

d, so as to reverse the direction of motion. Sailing along the coast, the doubled the promontory of Carthage. Knolles.

process of redistilling spirits, to improve the strength and flavor. Doubling a cape, promontory, etc. (Naut.), sailing around or passing beyond a cape, promontory, etc.

Exhibiting a sharp, frigid preciseness of execution, or the want of a delicate contour in form, and of easy transition in coloring. Dry area (Arch.), a small open space reserved outside the foundation of a building to guard it from damp. -- Dry blow. (a) (Med.) A blow which inflicts no wound, and causes no effusion of…

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn

One of the peculiar dermal appendages, of several kinds, belonging to birds, as contour feathers, quills, and down.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

One who is versed in the science of fossils; a paleontologist. Joseph Black.

From; away; back or backward; -- now used only in oppositionto the word to, in the phrase to and fro, that is, to and from. See To and fro under To. Millon.

In ontogony, differentiation of male and female individuals from embryos having the same rudimentary sexual organs.

A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

rt pike, sometimes carried by officers of infantry, sometimes used in boarding ships; a spontoon. Tatler.

The fall dandelion (Leontodon autumnale).

A headland; a promontory; as, Gay Head. Shak.