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A queen or princess; the wife of a rajah. [Written also ranee.] [India]

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

Partial or total absence of the skull.

Wanting a skull.

Sculptured ornaments, used in classical architecture, representing rams' heads or skulls.

Of or pertaining to the Koran.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

Same as Alcoranic.

Same as Alcoranist.

A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned with wreaths, etc.

A yellow crystalline substance, C6Cl4.O2, regarded as a derivative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.

A genus of living Brachiopoda; -- so called from its fancied resemblance to the cranium or skull.

Of or pertaining to the cranium.

The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery. Dunglison.

An instrument for crushing the head of a fetus, to facilitate delivery in difficult eases.

Of or pertaining to the cranium and face; as, the craniofacial angle.

The science of the form and characteristics of the skull. [R.]

Of or pertaining to craniology.

One proficient in craniology; a phrenologist.

The department of science (as of ethnology or archæology) which deals with the shape, size, proportions, indications, etc., of skulls; the study of skulls.