Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The upper half of the cranium, especially the anterior portion above and including the forehead.
- noun The forehead.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The upper half or part of the head; the dome of the skull; the calvarium, including the vertical, parietal, and frontal regions of the cranium: … distinguished from
occiput . - noun In entomology, the front of the epicranium, or that part between the vertex and the clypeus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anat.) The fore part of the head.
- noun (Zoöl.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
front part of thehead orskull (asdistinct from theocciput ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“And had I made the observation sooner,” continued the magistrate, “I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput.”
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The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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The front portion of it is termed ‘bregma’ or ‘sinciput’, developed after birth-for it is the last of all the bones in the body to acquire solidity, - the hinder part is termed the
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In the face the part below the sinciput and between the eyes is termed the forehead.
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The brain lies underneath the sinciput; the occiput is hollow.
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Wet your forefinger with your spittle; stick a broken gold-leaf on the sinciput; clip off a beggar's beard to make it tresses, kiss it; fall down before it; worship it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of "corruption" was evacuated.
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After the eighth day a cranial abscess spontaneously opened, from the sinciput to the occiput, and a large quantity of ` ` corruption '' was evacuated.
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"And had I made the observation sooner," continued the magistrate, "I might have spared myself a good deal of trouble and a headache which extends from my occiput to my sinciput."
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Jules Verne 1866
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The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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