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Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is a deposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.

To lay or deposit eggs; -- said esp. of insects.

The depositing of eggs, esp. by insects.

The organ with which many insects and some other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

sters; a place in a tidal river or other water on or near the seashore, where oysters are deposited to grow and fatten for market. See lst Scalp, n. -- Oyster catcher (Zoöl.), any one of several species of wading birds of the genus Hæmatopus, which frequent seashores and feed upon shellfish. The European species (H. o…

A depository or place where all sorts of manufactured articles are collected for sale.

Anything delivered or deposited as security, as for the payment of money borrowed, or of a debt; a pledge. See Pledge, n., 1. As for mortgaging or pawning, . . . men will not take pawns without use [i.e., interest]. Bacon.

One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.

To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.

visible. Phanerite series (Geol.), the uppermost part of the earth's crust, consisting of deposits produced by causes in obvious operation.

Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

A deposition, esp. an excessive deposition, of coloring matter; as, pigmentation of the liver.

A deposit of earth, sand, or gravel, containing valuable mineral in particles, especially by the side of a river, or in the bed of a mountain torrent. [U.S.]

h a thin plate of precious or bright metal, as by mechanical means or by electro-magnetic deposition.

so, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

Of or pertaining to the epoch, or the deposits, following the Tertiary, and immediately preceding man. -- n.