This is the last day of my year, and should my engagement be unredeemed when the sun attains the cusp of that nethermost house of heaven which he is even now traversing, I must become an inmate of the infernal kingdom.

The grinding surfaces of their molar teeth were also primitive, bearing none of the complicated, curved crests and ridges possessed by present ruminants, but instead they had conical cusps, usually not more than three to a tooth; this tritubercular style of molar crown being about the earliest known in true mammals.

In distinction from these, Aeluroidea never have more than two true molars below, and the cusps of their teeth are much more sharply edged, reaching in the sectorials the extreme of scissor-like specialization.

And besides this, eighty-six separate computations of the tabular R.A. and N.P.D. of cusps have been required.

Angularity N. angularity, angularness^; aduncity^; angle, cusp, bend; fold &c 258; notch &c 257; fork, bifurcation.

Sharpness N. sharpness &c adj.; acuity, acumination^; spinosity^. point, spike, spine, spicule [Biol.], spiculum^; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle^, bear grass [U.S.], tine, yucca.

If it be still living- -but short and stunted in comparison with the higher forkwe obtain, it seems to me, something like the foliated cusp; both likenesses being near enough to those of common objects to make it possible that those objects may have suggested them.

Hard pointed, tipped with a cusp.

In spite of the Gothic cusps introduced by Niccola into his pulpits, the spirit of his work remained classical.

R106367, 27Jan53, Marguerite Winslow Plummer Sheahan (C) The rising sign and the cusps of houses.

The rising sign and the cusps of houses.

R106367, 27Jan53, Marguerite Winslow Plummer Sheahan (C) The rising sign and the cusps of houses.

The rising sign and the cusps of houses.

The details are poor (note the absence of cusps in alternate windows of nave), and the fan tracery (original in choir only) is exuberant.

Edward I.), under a recessed cinquefoiled canopy, the cusps of which are worked up into faces, (3) altar-tomb, with effigies of a knight (in plate armour) and a ladybelieved to be John Speke (d. 1442) and his wife, (4) small brass on floor to George and Elizabeth Speke (1528).

Note (1) grotesque figures supporting canopy; (2) cusps worked up into figures of angels (cp. Dowlishwake); (3) iron prickets for lights.