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The breaking of a bone.

A ragout or fricassee of veal; a fancy dish of veal or of boned turkey, served as an entrée, -- called also fricandel. A. J. Cooley.

ining to the forehead or the anterior part of the roof of the brain case; as, the frontal bones.

A combining form signifying relating to the forehead or the frontal bone; as, fronto-parietal, relating to the frontal and the parietal bones; fronto-nasal, etc.

Droll; comical; amusing; laughable. Funny bone. See crazy bone, under Crazy.

A forked process; the wishbone or furculum.

The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

oid scale (Zoöl.), one kind of scales of the ganoid fishes, composed of an inner layer of bone, and an outer layer of shining enamel. They are often so arranged as to form a coat of mail.

A European marine fish (Belone vulgaris); -- called also gar, gerrick, greenback, greenbone, gorebill, hornfish, longnose, mackerel guide, sea needle, and sea pike.

ction of boiling water on the collagen of various kinds of connective tissue (as tendons, bones, ligaments, etc.). Its distinguishing character is that of dissolving in hot water, and forming a jelly on cooling. It is an important ingredient of calf's-foot jelly, isinglass, glue, etc. It is used as food, but its nutrit…

Of or pertaining to the chin and hyoid bone; as, the geniohyoid muscle.

A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. Giants of mighty bone and bold emprise. Milton.

protuberant; convex; as, the moon is gibbous between the half-moon and the full moon. The bones will rise, and make a gibbous member. Wiseman.

The clitellus of an earthworm. Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea girdle (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus. -- Shoulder, Pectoral, and Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To have under the girdle, to ha…

The space between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

pplied to the anterior segment of the hyoidean arch in many fishes. -- n. The glossohyal bone or cartilage; lingual bone; entoglossal bone.

t; to wear or eat away by scraping or continuous biting with the teeth; to nibble at. His bones clean picked; his very bones they gnaw. Dryden.

orm of union or immovable articulation where a hard part is received into the cavity of a bone, as the teeth into the jaws.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.