Bimana: alternatives and connections

One of the four subkingdoms in the classification of Cuvier. It has been much modified by later writers.

Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia, in…

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that the…

(with ‘in’) guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hand…

A group of Mammalia in which a decidua is thrown off with, or after, the fetus, as in the human species.

An order of Mammalia; the Cheiroptera.

The subclass of Mammalia which includes the marsupials. See Marsupialia.

To give warning to; -- said of a person in whose hands the effects of another are attached, the warning being to the effect that he sh…

To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifl…

The peculiar structure of mind with whoch each individual is endowed by nature; that disposition or aptitude of mind which is peculiar…

The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted.

A touching, controlling, managing, using, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. See Handle, v. t.

An extensive division of Mammalia. It formerly included the Proboscidea, Hyracoidea, Perissodactyla, and Artiodactyla, but by later wr…

Maintaining a uniform temperature; haematothermal; homothermic; -- applied to warm-bodied animals, because they maintain a nearly unif…

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

Resembling a worm; as, the lumbrical muscles of the hands of the hands and feet.

A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

One of the Mammalia.