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m bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

process, in the growth of an animal, by which inorganic material (mainly lime salts) is deposited in cartilage or membrane, forming bony tissue; ostosis.

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.

d in any vicious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

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.

ters; 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. os…

he hart panteth after the water brooks. Ps. xlii. 1. Who pants for glory finds but short repose. Pope.

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

A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely.

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

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.

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

A state of quiet or tranquillity; freedom from disturbance or agitation; calm; repose; specifically:

Guilty of perfidy; violating good faith or vows; false to trust or confidence reposed; teacherous; faithless; as, a perfidious friend. Shak.