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One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

s or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

constitutes the primitive axial skeleton around which the centra of the vertebræ and the posterior part of the base of the skull are developed; the chorda dorsalis. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

Compressed or flattened antero-posteriorly, or in a way opposite to the usual one.

t of the head, or to the occipital bone. Occipital bone (Anat.), the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become consolidated in the adult. -- Occipital poin…

The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

The principal opercular bone in the upper and posterior part of the gill cover.

The middle of the posterior, or dorsal, margin of the great foramen of the skull.

applied especially to vertebræ in which the anterior end of the centrum is convex and the posterior concave.

A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

Having the pulmonary sac situated posteriorly; -- said of certain air-breathing Mollusca.

The inferior and posterior of the three elements forming the periotic bone.

. (Opt.) (a) A line drawn through the center of the eye perpendicular to its anterior and posterior surfaces. In a normal eye it is in the direction of the optic axis that objects are most distinctly seen. (b) The line in a doubly refracting crystal, in the direction of which no double refraction occurs. A uniaxial cry…

in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

The posterior nares. See Nares.

by the mantle. -- Pallial sinus (Zoöl.), an inward bending of the pallial line, near the posterior end of certain bivalve shells, to receive the siphon. See Illust. of Bivalve.

aper, as an advertisement or a declaration, posted, or to be posted, in a public place; a poster.

Flat at the anterior and concave at the posterior end; -- said of the centra of the vertebræ of some extinct dinouaurs.

. The species are very numerous, especially in tropical seas. The outer lip has usually a posterior notch or slit.