Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mandibular .
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- adjective archaic
mandibular
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Examples
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But one of them by chance, groping or sounding the country with his staff, to try whether they were in safety or no, struck hard against the cleft of a hollow tooth, and hit the mandibulary sinew or nerve of the jaw, which put Gargantua to very great pain, so that he began to cry for the rage that he felt.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But one of them by chance, groping or sounding the country with his staff, to try whether they were in safety or no, struck hard against the cleft of a hollow tooth, and hit the mandibulary sinew or nerve of the jaw, which put Gargantua to very great pain, so that he began to cry for the rage that he felt.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Lastly, the compression of the neck by the mandibulary pincers, the munching of the weak spot between the base of the skull and the first segment of the thorax, is sometimes practised and sometimes neglected.
More Hunting Wasps Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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But one of them by chance, groping or sounding the country with his staff, to try whether they were in safety or no, struck hard against the cleft of a hollow tooth, and hit the mandibulary sinew or nerve of the jaw, which put Gargantua to very great pain, so that he began to cry for the rage that he felt.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Ancistrus mullerae, named after Swiss ichthyologist Sonia Fisch-Muller, is distinguished from congeners in the region by a combination of: shorter maxillary barbel that is not distinctly produced from the lower lip margin, width of mandibulary tooth rows 16. 5-21.0% head length and
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Ancistrus agostinhoi is distinguished from congeners in the region by a combination of: shorter maxillary barbel that is not distinctly produced from the lower lip margin, width of mandibulary tooth rows 15. 8-19.3% head length and 38. 4-53.6% interorbital width, eye diameter
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a hollow tooth, and hit the mandibulary sinew or nerve of the jaw, which put Gargantua to very great pain, so that he began to cry for the rage that he felt.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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