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Understanding law; skilled in jurisprudence. G. West.

Of or pertaining to jurisprudence. Stewart.

A labiodental sound or letter.

Broad-toothed.

t use of the tongue and teeth, or rather that part of the gum just above the front teeth; dentolingual, as the letters d and t.

Linguadental.

Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting. [R.] Bp. Hall.

A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine. [Obs.] Holinshed.

An embellishment resembling a trill.

Having many teeth, or toothlike processes.

Not coincident.

siding in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

A substance which sheathes a part, or blunts irritation, usually some bland, oily, or mucilaginous matter; -- nearly the same as demulcent. Forsyth.

pposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. Chaucer. I may wander from east to occident. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

Serving to close; shutting up. -- n.

Having eight teeth.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

Confident to excess. -- O"ver*con"fi*dent*ly, adv.