perignathic
adjective
Situated around the jaws; specifically designating a girdle of processes surrounding the mouth of a sea urchin, which serves as the site of attachment of the muscles of the chewing apparatus.
Origin
Late 19th century; earliest use found in The Athenaeum.
- be born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
- be bouncing off the walls
- be brought to bed
- be browned off
- be built like a brick shithouse
- be bumping along the bottom
- be burned at the stake
- BEC
- be called (or go) to the Bar
- be called within the Bar
- becalm
- becalmed
- became
- becard
- be carved on tablets of stone
- be cast away
- be cast down
- be cast in a —— mould
- be caught (or taken) short
- because
- because of
- beccafico
- bechance
- Bechdel test
- Bechstein