Word Meanings - PREMAXILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - PREMAXILLA
A bone on either side of the middle line between the nose and mouth, forming the anterior part of each half of the upper jawbone; the intermaxilla. In man the premaxillæ become united and form the incisor part of the maxillary bone. - ANTERIORITY
The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. Pope. - MIDDLE
1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - JAWBONE
The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - UPPERMOST
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - UNITIVE
Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor. - FORMICATE
Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants. - UNITARIANISM
The doctrines of Unitarians. - FORME
See PATTé - FORMEDON
A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished. - INTERMAXILLA
See PREMAXILLA - FORMAT
The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form. The older manuscripts had been written in a much larger format than that found convenient for university work. G. H. Putnam. One might, indeed, protest that the format is a little - BECOME
happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume.