Definition of bone

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Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone..

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Pectinal :: Pectinal (n.) A fish whose bone/ resemble comb teeth.
Zygoma :: Zygoma (n.) The jugal, malar, or cheek bone..
Rawbone :: Rawbone (a.) Rawboned.
Eelpout :: Eelpout (n.) A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value..
Suprafoliaceous :: Supra-ethmoid (a.) Above, or on the dorsal side of, the ethmoid bone or cartilage..
Cockal :: Cockal (n.) A game played with sheep's bones instead of dic.
Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..
Presphenoid :: Presphenoid (n.) The presphenoid bone.
Cancelli :: Cancelli (v. t.) The interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, esp. in their articular extremities..
Distal :: Distal (a.) Remote from the point of attachment or origin; as, the distal end of a bone or muscle.
Unbone :: Unbone (v. t.) To twist about, as if boneless..
Ossivorous :: Ossivorous (a.) Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds..
Luz :: Luz (n.) A bone of the human body which was supposed by certain Rabbinical writers to be indestructible. Its location was a matter of dispute.
Entoglossal :: Entoglossal (a.) Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
Ossifragous :: Ossifragous (a.) Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.
Dentary :: Dentary (n.) The distal bone of the lower jaw in many animals, which may or may not bear teeth..
Ischium :: Ischium (n.) The ventral and posterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; seat bone; the huckle bone.
Orbitosphenoid :: Orbitosphenoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone..
Glenoid :: Glenoid (a.) Having the form of a smooth and shallow depression; socketlike; -- applied to several articular surfaces of bone; as, the glenoid cavity, or fossa, of the scapula, in which the head of the humerus articulates..
Counter :: Counter (v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc..
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