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onis or pheasant's eye, the mealy primrose (Primula farinosa), and species of Veronica, Geranium, etc.

A small fresh-water fish (Uranidea Richardsoni); the miller's thumb.

d the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord, and is developed from three embryonic vesicles, whose cavities are connected with the central canal of the cord; the cavities of the vesicles…

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine.

A fresh-water fish of many species, of the genus Uranidea, esp. U. gobio of Europe, and U. Richardsoni of the United States; -- called also miller's thumb.

One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness." [Colloq.]

To dress with bushhammer; as, to bushhammer a block of granite.

tained from coffee. It is identical with the alkaloid theine from tea leaves, and with guaranine from guarana.

The bones of the cranium; more especially, the bones of the domelike upper portion.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

ad. See the Note under Anterior. Cephalic index (Anat.), the ratio of the breadth of the cranium to the length, which is taken as the standard, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disor…

The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

bining form meaning a grain, granular, granular cartilage, cartilaginous; as, the chondrocranium, the cartilaginous skull of the lower vertebrates and of embryos.

the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

An axis to which a carpel of a compound pistil may be attached, as in the case of the geranium; or which is left when a pod opens.

A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

aratus for taking the conformation of anything, as of the head for fitting a hat, or, in craniometry, finding the largest horizontal area of the head.

A lamentation for the dead; a dirge. [Written also coranich, corrinoch, coronach, cronach, etc.] [Scot.]