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a masonry support that touches and directly receives thrust or pressure of an arch or bridge

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

Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

Any place covered by an arch; an archway; as, to pass into the arch of a bridge.

Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an arched door.

The ovoid prominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

One of a tribe of North American Indians now living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of flattening their skulls. Chino…

Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.

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

An instrument for measuring the size of skulls.

The art or act of measuring skulls.

The vertex or top of an arch; -- applied generally to about one third of the curve, but in a pointed arch to the apex only.

An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.

The arch over the dam of a blast furnace; the tymp arch.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

Pertaining to both the hyoidean arch and the tongue; -- applied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The…

The keel or lower outline of a bird's bill, so far as the mandibular rami are united.