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Definition of Stilets
1. stilet [n] - See also: stilet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stilets
Literary usage of Stilets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Class Reptilia by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Edward Pidgeon (1831)
"17741, £ 1> under the name of Serpent Lizard.) Its feet are small stilets, not
divided. It inhabits the environs of the Cape of Good Hope. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1905)
"The stilets surround a delicate canal, at the base of which opens the duct of
the gland (Gl.d.). The whole armature is an exquisite device for the ..."
3. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1915)
"The three stilets simultaneously register upon a strip of smoked paper, which,
by means of a roller and guide wheels revolved by clockwork, travels past the ..."
4. Principles and Practice of Physical Diagnosis by John C. Da Costa (1919)
"The three stilets simultaneously register upon a strip of smoked paper, which,
by means of a roller and guide wheels revolved by clockwork, travels past the ..."
5. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"At a later stage, after an ecdysis, the stilets and palpi grow out from the
proboscis, and are presumed to be the homologues respectively of the chelicerae ..."
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