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See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A nickname for a surgeon.

Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . . Where armies whole have sunk. Milton.

The public bone.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

See Serbonian.

Belonging to the Sorbonne or to a Sorbonist. Bale.

A doctor of the Sorbonne, or theological college, in the University of Paris, founded by Robert de Sorbon, a. d. 1252. It was suppressed in the Revolution of 1789.

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.

A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Carboniferous formations underlying the proper coal measures. It was a marine formation characterized in general by beds of limestone. -- n.

Beneath or forward of the umbos of a bivalve shell.

A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid, H2CSO2 (called also thiocarbonic acid), or an acid, H2CS3, analogous to carbonic acid, obtained as a yellow oily liquid of a pungent odor, and forming salts.

The supreme or highest good, -- referring to the object of human life.

A bonnet, generally made of some thin or light fabric, projecting beyond the face, and commonly having a cape, -- worn by women as a protection against the sun.

A bicarbonate. [Obsoles.]

A sulphocarbonate.

Same as Sulphocarbonic.