dorsulumn.
Entomology.
‘Kirby's name for a piece of the exoskeleton of an insect situated between the collar and scutellum, which gives insertion to the anterior organs of flight’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883).
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1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1828) III. xxxv. 547 The anterior margin of the dorsolum is deflexed.
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n.1826- to put one's best leg forward
- to put one's cards on the table
- to put one's chips on
- to put one's come hither on a person
- to put one's eyes together
- to put one's face against
- to put one's feet under another's mahogany
- to put one's feet under mahogany
- to put one's feet up
- to put one's finger in a hole
- to put one's finger in one's eye
- to put one's finger in the dyke
- to put one's finger in the fire
- to put one's finger on
- to put one's foot
- to put one's foot down
- to put one's foot in it
- to put one's foot in one's mouth
- to put one's foot into it
- to put one's foot to the floor
- to put one's foot upon
- to put one's hand in
- to put one's hand in one's pocket
- to put one's hand into one's pocket
- to put one's hand on