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Sinciput   Listen
noun
Sinciput  n.  
1.
(Anat.) The fore part of the head.
2.
(Zool.) The part of the head of a bird between the base of the bill and the vertex.





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"Sinciput" Quotes from Famous Books



... princes! How much coarse-grained wood a little gypsum covers! a little carmine quite beautifies! 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. Are you not irradiated by the light of its countenance? Princes! princes! Italian princes! Estes! What matters that costly carrion? Who thinks about it? ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 - Vol. 53, January, 1843 • Various


Words linked to "Sinciput" :   human head


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