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Dentary :: Dentary (n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth..

Nematognathi :: Nematognathi (n. pl.) An order of fishes having barbels on the jaws. It includes the catfishes, or siluroids. See Siluroid..

Curb :: Curb (n.) That which curbs, restrains, or subdues; a check or hindrance; esp., a chain or strap attached to the upper part of the branches of a bit, and capable of being drawn tightly against the lower jaw of the horse..

Gnathic :: Gnathic (a.) Of or pertaining to the jaw.

Underchaps :: Underchaps (n. pl.) The lower chaps or jaw.

Staggard :: Stag-evil (n.) A kind of palsy affecting the jaw of a horse.

Tut-mouthed :: Tut-mouthed (a.) Having a projecting under jaw; prognathous.

Phalangoidea :: Phalangoidea (n. pl.) A division of Arachnoidea, including the daddy longlegs or harvestman (Phalangium) and many similar kinds. They have long, slender, many-jointed legs; usually a rounded, segmented abdomen; and chelate jaws. They breathe by tracheae. Called also Phalangides, Phalangidea, Phalangiida, and Opilionea..

Wrench :: Wrench (v. t.) An instrument, often a simple bar or lever with jaws or an angular orifice either at the end or between the ends, for exerting a twisting strain, as in turning bolts, nuts, screw taps, etc.; a screw key. Many wrenches have adjustable jaws for grasping nuts, etc., of different sizes..

Beard :: Beard (n.) That part of the under side of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle..

Underhung :: Underhung (a.) Having the lower jaw projecting.

Chop :: Chop (n.) A jaw of an animal; -- commonly in the pl. See Chops.

Digastric :: Digastric (a.) Having two bellies; biventral; -- applied to muscles which are fleshy at each end and have a tendon in the middle, and esp. to the muscle which pulls down the lower jaw..

Locked-jaw :: Locked-jaw (n.) See Lockjaw.

Saury :: Saury (n.) A slender marine fish (Scomberesox saurus) of Europe and America. It has long, thin, beaklike jaws. Called also billfish, gowdnook, gawnook, skipper, skipjack, skopster, lizard fish, and Egypt herring..

Jawing :: Jawing (n.) Scolding; clamorous or abusive talk.

Futchel :: Futchel (n.) The jaws between which the hinder end of a carriage tongue is inserted.

Chap :: Chap (n.) One of the jaws or the fleshy covering of a jaw; -- commonly in the plural, and used of animals, and colloquially of human beings..

Law-fall :: "Law-fall (n.) Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits..

Engouled :: Engouled (a.) Partly swallowed; disappearing in the jaws of anything; as, an infant engouled by a serpent; said also of an ordinary, when its two ends to issue from the mouths of lions, or the like; as, a bend engouled..

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