Obs. [cf. OF. epiglote.] Anglicized form of EPIGLOTTIS.
1547. Boorde, Brev. Health, ccxxvi. 77. The longes, the midryffe, the arter trache, the Epiglote.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, II. 39. The Epiglot … ought of right to be Gristely, that it might without hurt admitte continuall mouying.
1594. T. B., trans. La Primaudaye’s Fr. Acad., II. 107. Another little instrument, called Epiglot … like to a little tongue.
