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Sine :: Sine (n.) The length of a perpendicular drawn from one extremity of an arc of a circle to the diameter drawn through the other extremity.

Antitropous :: Antitropous (a.) At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle..

Burr :: Burr (n.) A guttural pronounciation of the letter r, produced by trilling the extremity of the soft palate against the back part of the tongue; rotacism; -- often called the Newcastle, Northumberland, or Tweedside, burr..

Top :: Top (n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground..

Acromion :: Acromion (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

Fistularia :: Fistularia (n.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity..

Xiphisternum :: Xiphisternum (n.) The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process..

Succision :: Succise (a.) Appearing as if a part were cut off at the extremity.

Chin :: Chin (n.) The lower extremity of the face below the mouth; the point of the under jaw.

Hesperides :: Hesperides (n. pl.) The daughters of Hesperus, or Night (brother of Atlas), and fabled possessors of a garden producing golden apples, in Africa, at the western extremity of the known world. To slay the guarding dragon and get some of these apples was one of the labors of Hercules. Called also Atlantides..

Utterance :: Utterance (n.) The last extremity; the end; death; outrance.

Pole :: Pole (n.) Either extremity of an axis of a sphere; especially, one of the extremities of the earth's axis; as, the north pole..

Posterior :: Posterior (a.) At or toward the caudal extremity; caudal; -- in human anatomy often used for dorsal.

Urostyle :: Urostyle (n.) A styliform process forming the posterior extremity of the vertebral column in some fishes and amphibians.

Extremity :: Extremity (n.) The extreme part; the utmost limit; the farthest or remotest point or part; as, the extremities of a country..

Mentomeckelian :: Mentomeckelian (n.) The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

Extremity :: Extremity (n.) One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

Hodograph :: Hodograph (n.) A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces..

Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Cubit :: Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger..

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