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Bicched bonesBicched Bic"ched, a. [Of unknown origin.]
Pecked; pitted; notched. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
Bicched bones, pecked, or notched, bones; dice. Bloodybones
Bloodybones Blood"y*bones`, n.
A terrible bugbear.
BonesetBoneset Bone"set`, n. (Bot.)
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium
perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic. BonesetterBonesetter Bone"set*ter, n.
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied
to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of
setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n. BonesettingBonesetter Bone"set*ter, n.
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied
to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of
setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n. Boneshaw
Boneshaw Bone"shaw, n. (Med.)
Sciatica. [Obs.]
Crossbones
Crossbones Cross"bones` (-b[=o]nz`), n. pl.
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a
skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and
serving as a symbol of death.
Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios
emblems of mortality. --Hawthorne.
hook bonesHook Hook, n. [OE. hok, AS. h[=o]c; cf. D. haak, G. hake,
haken, OHG. h[=a]ko, h[=a]go, h[=a]ggo, Icel. haki, Sw. hake,
Dan. hage. Cf. Arquebuse, Hagbut, Hake, Hatch a half
door, Heckle.]
1. A piece of metal, or other hard material, formed or bent
into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or
sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook
for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
2. That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on
which a door or gate hangs and turns.
3. An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an
instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
Like slashing Bentley with his desperate hook.
--Pope.
4. (Steam Engin.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
5. A snare; a trap. [R.] --Shak.
6. A field sown two years in succession. [Prov. Eng.]
7. pl. The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; --
called also hook bones.
By hook or by crook, one way or other; by any means, direct
or indirect. --Milton. ``In hope her to attain by hook or
crook.' --Spenser.
Off the hooks, unhinged; disturbed; disordered. [Colloq.]
``In the evening, by water, to the Duke of Albemarle, whom
I found mightly off the hooks that the ships are not gone
out of the river.' --Pepys. Lazybones
Lazybones La"zy*bones`, n.
A lazy person. [Colloq.]
Nasal bonesNasal Na"sal (n[=a]"zal), a. [F., from L. nasus the nose. See
Nose.]
1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the nose.
2. (Phon.) Having a quality imparted by means of the nose;
and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in
some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice
thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in
the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation,
[sect][sect] 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the
nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of
the frontals.
Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the
transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which
latter distance is taken as the standard, equal to 100. Palatine bonesPalatine Pal"a*tine, a. [From Palate.] (Anat.)
Of or pertaining to the palate.
Palatine bones (Anat.), a pair of bones (often united in
the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between
the maxillaries. Rackabones
Rackabones Rack"a*bones`, n.
A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]
Sawbones
Sawbones Saw"bones`, n.
A nickname for a surgeon.
Skull and crossbonesSkull Skull, n. [OE. skulle, sculle, scolle; akin to Scot.
skull, skoll, a bowl, Sw. skalle skull, skal a shell, and E.
scale; cf. G. hirnschale, Dan. hierneskal. Cf. Scale of a
balance.]
1. (Anat.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal,
including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and
cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of
Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of
Skeleton, in Appendix.
Note: In many fishes the skull is almost wholly cartilaginous
but in the higher vertebrates it is more or less
completely ossified, several bones are developed in the
face, and the cranium is made up, wholly or partially,
of bony plates arranged in three segments, the frontal,
parietal, and occipital, and usually closely united in
the adult.
2. The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
Skulls that can not teach, and will not learn.
--Cowper.
3. A covering for the head; a skullcap. [Obs. & R.]
Let me put on my skull first. --Beau. & Fl.
4. A sort of oar. See Scull.
Skull and crossbones, a symbol of death. See Crossbones. UmbonesUmbo Um"bo, n.; pl. L. Umbones, E. Umbos. [L.]
1. The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually
projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.
2. A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding
depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo
in the integument of the larv[ae] of echinoderms or in the
tympanic membrane of the ear.
3. (Zo["o]l.) One of the lateral prominence just above the
hinge of a bivalve shell. Whettlebones
Whettlebones Whet"tle*bones, n. pl.
The vertebr[ae] of the back. [Prov. Eng.] --Dunglison.
Wormian bonesWormian Wor"mi*an, a. (Anat.)
Discovered or described by Olanus Wormius, a Danish
anatomist.
Wormian bones, small irregular plates of bone often
interposed in the sutures between the large cranial bones.
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mechanical load
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bones at the time of birth, but
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