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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Max-il'la, n.

noun

n.; pl. MAX-IL'LE. [Lat., diminutive of mala, jaw, jaw-bone.]

  1. (Anat.) Either of the bones of the jaw in which the teeth are inserted; a jaw-bone; jaw.
  2. (pl.) (Entom.) The lower jaws of an insect.
  3. (Zool.) (a.) The upper jaw in vertebrate animals. (b.) The lower pair of horizontal jaws of an articulate animal. Agassiz.