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The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

Same as Ament.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

An oath.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploön.

Antiq.) A military cloak worn by a general and his principal officers.

The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.

A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.

The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

brane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum See Omentum. The caul serves for warming of the lower belly. Ray.

The layer of bone investing the root and neck of a tooth; -- called also cementum. Hydraulic cement. See under Hydraulic.

To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.

See Omentum.

he movement (opposing any sudden acceleration by its inertia and any retardation by its momentum), and to accumulate or give out energy for a variable or intermitting resistance. See Fly, n., 9. -- On the fly (Baseball), still in the air; -- said of a batted ball caught before touching the ground..

icle of the brain. -- Foramen of Winslow (Anat.), the opening connecting the sac of the omentum with the general cavity of the peritoneum.

Pertaining to both the stomach and the colon; as, the gastrocolic, or great, omentum.

Of or pertaining to the stomach and omentum.

Pertaining to the stomach and liver; hepatogastric; as, the gastrohepatic, or lesser, omentum.

A plate which in most insects supports the submentum.