The incus bone in the middle ear.
A stone or other hard surface used by a bird for breaking the shells of snails.
A horizontal-topped mass of cloud, shaped like a blacksmith's anvil, that forms before a thunderstorm.
The non-moving surface of a micrometer against which the item to be measured is placed.
A heavy iron block used in the blacksmithing trade as a surface upon which metal can be struck and shaped.
To fashion on, or as if on, an anvil.
The main portion of the middle ear: the tympanic cavity (cavitas tympani).
A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged; used for raising water, as for irrigation.
A membranous resonator in a sound-producing organ in frogs and toads.
A thin tense membrane covering the hearing organ on the leg or body of some insects, sometimes adapted (as in cicadas) for producing sound.
(in certain birds) The labyrinth at the bottom of the windpipe.
The eardrum (tympanic membrane, membrana tympanica).
A vertical recessed triangular space between the sides of a pediment, typically decorated
The recessed triangular space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch