Word Meanings - EPISKELETAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Above or outside of the endoskeleton; epaxial.

OUTSIDER
1. One not belonging to the concern, institution, party, etc., spoken of; one disconnected in interest or feeling. A. Trollope. 2. A locksmith's pinchers for grasping the point of a key in the keyhole, to open a door from the outside when the
ABOVEBOARD
Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
ABOVESAID
Mentioned or recited before.
EPAXIAL
Above, or on the dorsal side of, the axis of the skeleton; episkeletal.
ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
ABOVEDECK
On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
ENDOSKELETON
The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.
OUTSIDE
1. The external part of a thing; the part, end, or side which forms the surface; that which appears, or is manifest; that which is superficial; the exterior. There may be great need of an outside where there is little or nothing within. South.
ABOVE
1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
ABOVE-CITED
Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.