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/mhw>, a. See Arrhizal, Arrhizous, Arrhythmic, Arrhythmous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arithmancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; number + -meter: cf. F. arithmomètre. ] A calculating machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; rhythm. ] (Med.) Being without rhythm or regularity, as the pulse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. The practices of a boroughmonger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The religious system of Brahmo-somaj. Balfour. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bengalese, a worshiping assembly. ] A modern reforming theistic sect among the Hindus. [ Written also Brama-samaj. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (AS. Law) [ Burgh + mote meeting. ] A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ect- + ethmoid. ] (Anat.) External to the ethmoid; prefrontal. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. (Anat.) The ethmoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; like a sieve; &unr_; sieve + &unr_; from: cf. F. ethmoïde, ethmoïdal. ] (Anat.) (a) Like a sieve; cribriform. (b) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Ethmoid + turbinal. ] See Turbinal. -- n. An ethmoturbinal bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ethmoid + vomerine. ] (Anat.) Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dealer in fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. fl&aemacr_;sc mangere. ] One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp; a procurer; a pander. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Highest. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ acronym for Health Maintenance Organization. ] A health maintenance organization; a form of group health insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians. [ acronym ]
Syn. -- health maintenance organization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Mes- + ethmoid. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. -- n. (Anat.) The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. na the more. ] Not the more; never the more. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. norðmest. Cf. Aftermost. ] Lying farthest north; northernmost. [ 1913 Webster ]

Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. para- + ethmoid. ] (Anat.) Near or beside the ethmoid bone or cartilage; -- applied especially to a pair of bones in the nasal region of some fishes, and to the ethmoturbinals in some higher animals. -- n. A parethmoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Rhythm + -meter. ] An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A shaftment. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Farthest toward the south; southernmost. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Sphenoid + ethmoid. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Anat.) The sphenethmoid bone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Sphenethmoid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. sta`qmh a measuring line + -graph. ] A contrivance for recording the speed of a railway train. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of lively dance of a rude, boisterous character. Also, music in triple time appropriate to the dance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

All the windows in the town dance new trenchmore. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]