Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ornithology, the lower part of the throat; the fore part of the neck, between the gula and the pectus. See cut under
bird . - noun In entomology: A name proposed by Knoch and used by some writers to indicate the lower surface of the prothorax of a beetle
- noun A name given by Kirby to the basal piece on the lower side of an insect's head, now generally known as the gula.
- noun A name sometimes applied to the occipital foramen, an orifice in the back of the head, through which the alimentary canal and other organs pass to the thorax.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The lower throat, or that part of the neck just above the breast.
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- noun anatomy The
neck orthroat .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Carpe jugulum! on February 12, 2010 at 11: 05 am kKop
We Are So Unpopular That Everyone Wants To Join SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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I think the "carpe jugulum" cupcakes kind of look like fleur du lies with faces... maybe it's supposed to be "scary" french wallpaper come back to haunt you?
Ghosts with the Most Jen 2008
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Thus of their goods and bodies we can dispose; but what shall become of their souls, God alone can tell; his mercy may come inter pontem et fontem, inter gladium et jugulum, betwixt the bridge and the brook, the knife and the throat.
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I.p. 108, "per jugulum sinistrum capulotenus gladium totum ei demergit," and p. 110, "jugulo ejus vulnus dehiscit in patorem," The expression [Greek: nyktiphrourêtô thrasei] is well illustrated by the words of Nonnus, I.c. p. 64, 17.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840
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Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati & furori jugulum semper praebebit?
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Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicae crudelitati & furori jugulum semper praebebit?
Second Treatise of Government John Locke 1668
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Clarke translates the words ‘quod simul ac vidit, stricto Medea recludit Ense senis jugulum,’ ‘which as soon as Medea saw, she opens the throat of the old gentleman with a drawn sword.’] [Footnote 40: _And his hair.
The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847
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His words are these: "Quod siquis dicat, Ergone populus tyrannicæ crudelitati & furori jugulum semper præbebit?
Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II 1698
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