hamated
English
editAdjective
edithamated (comparative more hamated, superlative most hamated)
- Hooked, or with hooks
- Synonym: hamate
- hamated lines
- 1704, Jonathan Swift, The Mechanical Operation of Spirit:
- Farther, that nothing less than a violent Heat, can disentangle these Creatures [animal spirits] from their hamated station of Life, or give them Vigor and Humor, to imprint the Marks of their little Teeth.
- 1802, Samuel Latham Mitchill, The Medical Repository:
- The jaws were furnished with hooks or hamated teeth, in the manner common to snakes.
References
edit- “hamated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.