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A depriving of bone or of fruit stones. [Obs.] Bacon.

Boneless. "Exosseous animals. " Sir T. Browne.

Any protuberance of a bone which is not natural; an excrescence or morbid enlargement of a bone. Coxe.

removal by operation of a portion of a limb; particularly, the removal of a portion of a bone in the vicinity of a joint; the act or process of cutting out.

The operation of stretching a broken bone so as to bring the fragments into the same straight line.

The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture.

One of the small sesamoid bones situated behind the condyles of the femur, in some mammals.

A smooth circumscribed surface; as, the articular facet of a bone.

rations), from the most prominent part of the forehead to the front efge of the upper jaw bone, and another (cd) from this point to the center of the external auditory opening. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

The thigh bone.

and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.

The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.

A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.

The aggregate of the muscles, fat, and other tissues which cover the framework of bones in man and other animals; especially, the muscles.

lexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light. Sir I. Newton. All the flexibility of a veteran courtier. Macaulay.

f the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation.

To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.

The wishbone or furculum of birds.