Word Meanings - EPICRANIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The upper and superficial part of the head, including the scalp, muscles, etc.

Related words: (words related to EPICRANIUM)

• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• SCALPER
  See TICKETS (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scalps.
• INCLUDED
  Inclosed; confined. Included stamens , such as are shorter than the floral envelopes, or are concealed within them.
• SCALPING
  a. & n. from Scalp. Scalping iron , an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. -- Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping.
• SUPERFICIAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the superficies, or surface; lying on the surface; shallow; not deep; as, a superficial color; a superficial covering; superficial measure or contents; superficial tillage. 2. Reaching or comprehending only what is obvious
• SUPERFICIALITY
  The quality or state of being superficial; also, that which is superficial. Sir T. Browne.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• SCALP
  A bed of oysters or mussels.
• SCALPRIFORM
  Shaped like a chisel; as, the scalpriform incisors of rodents.
• SUPERFICIALIST
  One who attends to anything superficially; a superficial or shallow person; a sciolist; a smatterer.
• INCLUDE
  1. To confine within; to hold; to contain; to shut up; to inclose; as, the shell of a nut includes the kernel; a pearl is included in a shell. 2. To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason
• INCLUDIBLE
  Capable of being included.
• SUPERFICIALIZE
  To attend to, or to treat, superficially, or in a shallow or slighting way. It is a characteristic weakness of the day to superficialize evil. E. P. Whipple.
• SCALPEL
  A small knife with a thin, keen blade, -- used by surgeons, and in dissecting.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• DENTISCALP
  An instrument for scraping the teeth.
• SUPRASCALPULAR; SUPRASCALPULARY
  Situated above, or on the anterior side of, the scapula.
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• AURISCALP
  An earpick.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.