----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil & Anne Irons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [canals-list] You and Yours...


> On 4/11/07, David Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Adrian:
>> >>unfriendly and fishy eye.
>>
>> >His forename wasn't "Roderick", was it?
>>
>> He looked opisthognathous enough to be an Augustus.
>>
>> Dave
>> NB Jeeves
>
>
> Dave, you have defeated my "Oxford Concise Dictionary".  Please define
> 'opisthognathous' in the context you used above.

"Having retreating jaws", according to Chambers (sic) 20th century 
dictionary.
-- 
Iain 


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