pontinal (pontinal)

and n. [L. pon ( t- ) s, a bridge.) I. a. Bridging; forming a bridge over a gap, as among cranial bones. II. n . A bone of the skull of some fishes; a modified bone of the infra-orbital chain of bones bridging the interval between the second suborbital and the pre operculum, as in the Dacty lopteroidea . Gill , Amer. Nat. (1888), p. 358. Pontinel (pon'tin), a . [Also Pomptine ; = F. pontins (pl.) = It. pontine (pl.), Pont in us , Pomptinus , an appellation given to a district in Latium near Pometia, and particularly used of extensive marshes there; appar. a var. of Pometinus, of or belonging to Pometia, Pome tia , an old town of the Volscians.] Of or relating to an extensive marshy district southeast of Rome, called the Pontine Marshes . pontine2 (pon'tin), a . [ pon (t-)s, bridge, + -incl .] Same as pontile . Pontile (sometimes, incorrectly, pontine or pontal). Buck's Handbook of Med . Sciences , VIII. 524. Pont l'Evêque cheese. See cheese1. pontlevis (pont-levʻʼis), n. [ Yonder 's a plum-tree, with a crevice An owl would build in, were he but sage, For a lap of mo , like a fine pontlevis In a castle of the middle age, Joins to a lip of gum pure amber. Browning , Sibrandus Schafnaburgensis. 2. In the manège, the resistance of a horse by rearing repeatedly so as to be in danger of falling over. Pont ocas pian (pon-to-kas'pi-an), a. [ The water-shed of the Pont ocas pian area. Huxley , Crayfish, vi.