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† molair Obs. rare. Anat.
Used in pl. as rendering of L. molaria in the early editions of Vegetius iv. i; mod. editors read malaria, but the meaning is not clear. Topsell 1607, rendering the same passage, has ‘grinding bones’; Markham 1610, copying Blundevil, has molairs, which in ed. 1675 becomes molars.
1580Blundevil Diet. Horses viii. 4 b, Then there is a great bone in his [the horse's] breast wherevnto are fastened .xxxvi. ribbes. And to the Columell behind be two bones, and from the molairs to the ioints other two. |