See Also: Ungula(medicine)
ungula(dictionary)

bepuff (iou) and Ungula (medicine)


bepuff (iou)



bepuff verb trans. M19.
[from BE- 1 + PUFF verb.]
Puff out; fig. puff up, praise greatly.

Ungula (medicine)


ungula


Origin: L, a claw, hoof, from unguis a nail, claw, hoof.

1. A hoof, claw, or talon.

2. <geometry> A section or part of a cylinder, cone, or Other solid of revolution, cut off by a plane oblique to the base; so called from its resemblance to the hoof of a horse.

3. <botany> Same as Unguis.

<geometry> Spherical ungula, a part of a sphere bounded by two planes intersecting in a diameter and by a line of the surface of the sphere.

Source: Websters Dictionary