Knopfe), a cusp is the point where the foliations of tracery intersect.
The more medially, as opposed to anteriorly, directed medial cusp of P4 (characteristic of approximately half of the specimens examined), and the structure of the skull in general of M.
The third upper deciduous tooth has a single cusp internally and two cusps laterally.
There is a hint of the accessory cusp to the canines mentioned above in Pteralopex.
The molars and the last premolar have four cusps; the last molar of the lower jaw has an additional fifth cusp as in Macacus, etc.
One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown.
Ward's original description states that veracrucis has evenly spaced lower incisors and a basal cusp on the lower canine on only its forward edge.
The specimens from Honduras have a basal cusp on the hinder edge of the lower canine.
In size the central cusp is largest, the buccal cusp is practically as large, and the lingual cusp is small.
P4 has an anterior cusp and three posterior cusps as in other members of the genus.
A low arm or ridge extends from the lingual cusp forward to the lingual side of the base of the anterior cusp.
The internal cingulum of M1 exhibits only one large cusp opposite the medial end of the transverse valley, and shows no evidence of having been divided into two cusps.
There is no sign of the small cuspule on the anteroexternal base of the anterior cusp seen in H.
Posteriorly this single cusp in the cingulum is united with the hypocone.
Anteriorly the cusp is confluent with an anterior cingulum that is small, but, nevertheless, plainly visible as it crosses the occlusal face of the tooth to the paracone.
It consists of five complete foils, so that the points of the lowestcusp rest on the capital, and, to a certain extent, the effect of a horseshoe arch is produced.
The cusping of the arcade is not enclosed within an arch, and takes a distinctly horseshoe outline, the lowest cusp near to the cap spreading inwards at the base.
But if their rays or presence (says Varley) should be thrown on the cusp of the second house, then the native will have success in concerns of property.
When the cusp of the first house is well aspected by, or has the presence of Jupiter or Venus, and these are not afflicted by the aspects of evil planets, they preserve life in infancy, and give health, and often an agreeable person.
Fixed stars of the first magnitude, near the cusp of the seventh house, show a rich wife, but her disposition will sympathise with the planetary qualities of the star.
The next space (divided into twelve equal parts for the houses) is reserved for the planets and in the outer space are placed the signs of the zodiac, with the number of their degrees, on the cusp of each house.
And note that the number of degrees of a sign on the cusp of any house shows that that sign commenced in the previous house.
Virgo] on the cusp of the 4th house, and so on of the rest.
Capricorn], we should then have placed it in the 6th house, a little below the cusp of the 7th.
Aries] on the cusp of the 11th house, next 24 deg.
The planet with the sign in which it is placed, which is posited near the cusp of the 7th house, must be taken to describe the person.
The arches of the second zone at Ukhaiḍir are decorated not with the mouldings of the classical archivolt, but with the cusp of the great arch at Ctesiphon.
The middlecusp is conical, high and pointed; and the posterior cusp has a compressed, straight, knife-like edge.
In the Ursidae alone both the inner cuspand its root are wanting, and there is often a small internal and posterior cusp (5) without root.
The first and second upper incisors are small, with the summits of their crowns divided by deep transverse grooves into an anterior and a posterior cusp of nearly equal height; the third large and canine-like.
A variety of the straight guard forms also a cusp over the centre of the blade, as in the example given in our engraving, No.
Cercoleptes again resembles Leptarctus in having only three premolars in the lower jaw; the middle one, however, has only a single cusp upon the crown, whereas Leptarctus has two.
In the third premolar the posterior cusp is much better developed, and placed more obliquely than in the corresponding tooth of Procyon; the heel is moreover not so broad.
Most obviously to every student of the fossil history of cusps there is no reserve store, but new cusps are constantly rising upon the original crown itself by cusp addition.
Here the primitive cuspis the apex of a triangle of which the two lateral cusps are the base.
The skull of a degenerate girl who died from tuberculosis, at thirteen years, presented, among other stigmata, a cuspon the external surface of a right inferior cuspid.
The second molar, seen from above, has exactly the same cusps as the first, so it is not difficult to recognise that each cusp has been directly derived from its fellow.
The middle cusp is relatively lower, and the lateral cusps are relatively higher; in fact these cones are almost equal in size.
The fifth cusp always appears in the middle of the heel, or between the posterior lingual and the posterior buccal.
These teeth begin to show the first trace ofcusp addition.
It will be observed that not only is there a double-bodied sign on the cusp of the 7th House, but the Moon also applies to both the Sun and Jupiter in the sign Cancer.
Watery signs on the cusp of the 3rd House, or planets in watery signs in the 3rd, indicate cruising and yachting, short journeys by water around the coast.
This means that the 2nd degree of Cancer was on the cusp of the Tenth House (the Midheaven) at the moment of the birth, Leo 8th on the cusp of the Eleventh House, Virgo 8th on the cusp of the Twelfth, Libra 1.
A mundane ingress is made when a planet in the heavens comes to the cuspof one of the Houses in the horoscope of birth--that is to say, to the degree of the zodiac which held the cusp of such House.
Also a double sign being on the cusp of the 7th House, and the luminary in a fruitful sign, Cancer, Scorpio, or Pisces, or in aspect to planets in those signs.
On thecusp of the Fourth House we place Capricornus 2, because the Fourth House is opposite the 10th and the sign Capricornus is opposite to Cancer.
Twins are born from double-bodied signs occupying the cusp of the 5th House, or planets in the 5th in a double-bodied sign.
On the cuspof the Fifth House we place Aquarius 8, because the Fifth House is opposite to the Eleventh, and Aquarius is opposite to Leo.
If a movable sign be on the cusp of the 3rd House, or planets in a movable sign occupy the 3rd House, then there will be much travelling and many short journeys to and fro.
The paraconule is a low, ill-defined cusp on the anterior margin of the crown; a metaconule is not present.
A small stylar cusp is present anterolabial to the paracone.
The anterior slope of the main cusp is flattened, possibly the result of wear, and there is no evidence of a groove like that present on the P4 of the type specimen.
A chip of enamel is missing from the posterior slope of the main cusp of the P4 of KU no.
The only difference between the two specimens that might be of classificatory significance is the difference in size of the posterolingual cusp of P4.
The posterolingual cusp is supported by the broad posterior root.
Again: if you think of the tracery in its bars, you call the cusp a redent; but if you think of it in the openings, you call the apertures of it foils.
Adult: Lingual cusps worn smooth and labial cusps showing considerable wear; labial cusp of M3 may persist.
When a planet is in the mid-heaven, it is said to culminate; it means being on the cuspof the tenth.
At noon the Sun is on the cusp of the tenth house.
The human race is today standing upon the cusp of the Piscean-Aquarian Ages.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cusp" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: angle; auger; bit; drill; figure; frieze; needle; point; prick; prickle; sting; tip; top; triangle
