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adv. According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. accoustumance, F. accoutumance. ] Custom; habitual use. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Customarily. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Usual; customary. [ Archaic ] Featley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'archai^os ancient + sto`ma mouth. ] (Biol.) Applied to a gastrula when the blastopore does not entirely close up. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. 'a priv. + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] Not possessing a mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr., Gr. &unr_; gill + &unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) The lancelet. See Amphioxus. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, outh. ] (Zool.) An extensive suborder of marine Bryozoa, mostly with calcareous shells. They have a movable lip and a lid to close the aperture of the cells. [ Also written Chillostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Chilostoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Teaching what is useful. “A chrestomathic school.” Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; useful + &unr_;, &unr_;, to learn. ] A selection of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, comb + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, -&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; mouth. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Bryozoa, usually having a circle of bristles below the tentacles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. coustumable. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Customary. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Usually. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a customary manner; habitually. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being customary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ CF. OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. See Custom, and cf. Customer. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even now I met him
With customary compliment. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A formal customary attendance upon the offices. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. coustumier, F. coutumier. ] A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖‖/mhw>, n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. ky`klos circle + sto`ma, -atos mouth. ] (Zool.) A division of Bryozoa, in which the cells have circular apertures. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. di- = di`s- twice + sto`ma mouth. ] (Zool.) A genus of parasitic, trematode worms, having two suckers for attaching themselves to the part they infest. See 1st Fluke, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; + &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zoöl.) A plate which supports the labrum in certain Crustacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. epistoma, fr. Gr. 'epi` upon + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] (Zoöl.) (a) The region between the antennæ and the mouth, in Crustacea. (b) A liplike organ that covers the mouth, in most Bryozoa. See Illust., under Entoprocta. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [ Written also Gnathostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. "o`los whole + sto`ma, -atos, mouth.] (Zool.) An artificial division of gastropods, including those that have an entire aperture. [1913 Webster]

a. (Zool.) Same as Holostomatous. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) Having an entire aperture; -- said of many univalve shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. hypostoma, fr. Gr. "ypo` beneath + &unr_; mouth.] (Zool.) The lower lip of trilobites, crustaceans, etc. [1913 Webster]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`las black + sto`ma mouth. ] (Bot.) A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`ros thigh + &unr_;, -&unr_;, mouth. ] (Zool.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs (Limulus) of the last group. See Limulus. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. metastoma, from Gr. meta` behind + sto`ma mouth. ] (Zool.) A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. my`zein to suck + sto`ma, -atos, mouth. ] (Zool.) An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Odonto- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. pa^s, panto`s, all + sto`ma, sto`matos, mouth. ] (Zool.) One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Peristomata [ NL. ] Same as Peristome. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of straggling herbs of the southwestern U.S.
Syn. -- genus Pholistoma. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Same as Plagiostomous. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. poy`s, podo`s, foot + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] (Zool.) An order of Bryozoa of which Rhabdopleura is the type. See Rhabdopleura. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. poly`s many + &unr_;, &unr_;, mouth. ] (Zool.) A division of trematode worms having more two suckers. Called also Polystomea and Polystoma. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Pseudostomata [ NL. See Pseudo-, and Stoma. ] (Anat.) A group of cells resembling a stoma, but without any true aperture among them. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a root + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, a mouth. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Medusae which includes very large species without marginal tentacles, but having large mouth lobes closely united at the edges. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Scyphistomata Scyphistomae [ NL., fr. Gr. sky`fos a cup + sto`ma the mouth. ] (Zool.) The young attached larva of Discophora in the stage when it resembles a hydroid, or actinian. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; a military standard + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;, mouth. ] (Zool.) A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. It includes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr. under Discophora, and Medusa. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Siphon, and Stoma. ] (Zool.) (a) A tribe of parasitic copepod Crustacea including a large number of species that are parasites of fishes, as the lerneans. They have a mouth adapted to suck blood. (b) An artificial division of gastropods including those that have siphonostomatous shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Zool.) (a) Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell prolonged in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; -- said of certain gastropods. (b) Pertaining to the Siphonostomata. [ 1913 Webster ]