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Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. [Written also mantle.]

Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa hæmatica). Hook-billed marlin, a curlew.

Inflammation of the breast.

Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.

nus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species (S. magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent. -- Meadow mouse (Zoöl.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species A. riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole. -- Meadow mussel (Zoöl.), an American ribbed mussel (…

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

glass, glass having a milky appearance. -- Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. -- Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and chara…

maller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.

es are chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are dark gray. -- Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. -- Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the U…

Without spot; pure; shining. [Obs.] Her breast all naked as net ivory. Spenser.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

To nourish at the breast; to suckle; to feed and tend, as an infant.

Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

l species of birds of the genus Sitta, as the European species (Sitta Europæa). The white-breasted nuthatch (S. Carolinensis), the red-breasted nuthatch (S. Canadensis), the pygmy nuthatch (S. pygmæa), and others, are American.

Opposing; fronting. [Obs.] To the evil turn My obvious breast. Milton.

thing or ornament, or for use. "I have boots on." B. Gonson. He put on righteousness as a breastplate. Is. lix. 17.