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To draw; to drag; to carry off by vio [Obs.] Chaucer.

not rash, reckless, or spendthrift; saving; frugal. His rising reputation made him more chary of his fame. Jeffrey.

A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

An epipharyngeal bone or cartilage.

A structure which overlaps the mouth of certain insects.

Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves.

An appendage or fold on the lower side of the pharynx, in certain insects.

Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngeal polypus.

Pharyngeal. H. Sweet.

Of or pertaining to the pharynx; in the region of the pharynx.

Inflammation of the pharynx.

Of or pertaining to the pharynx and the branchiæ; -- applied especially to the dorsal elements in the branchial arches of fishes. See Pharyngeal. -- n.

Same as Leptocardia.

A division of fishes in which the lower pharyngeal bones are united. It includes the scaroid, labroid, and embioticoid fishes.

Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.

A group of invertebrates including the Tunicata and Enteropneusta. -- Pha*ryn`gop*neus"tal, a.

An instrument for incising or scarifying the tonsils, etc.

The operation of making an incision into the pharynx, to remove a tumor or anything that obstructs the passage.

The part of the alimentary canal between the cavity of the mouth and the esophagus. It has one or two external openings through the nose in the higher vertebrates, and lateral branchial openings in fishes and some amphibias.

of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.