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One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

usement of the winter, and played on the ice, by sliding from one mark to another great stones of 40 to 70 pounds weight, of a hemispherical form, with an iron or wooden handle at top. The object of the player is to lay his stone as near to the mark as possible, to guard that of his partner, which has been well laid be…

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity. Bolingbroke.

Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess.

re, treacherous dealing; duplicity. -- Plain dealing, fair, sincere, honorable dealing; honest, outspoken expression of opinion.

To deprive of calcareous matter; thus, to decalcify bones is to remove the stony part, and leave only the gelatin.

Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning.

To make more grave or low in tone; as, to deepen the tones of an organ. Deepens the murmur of the falling floods. Pope.

f failure or lack of. Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in default of the real ones. Arbuthnot. -- To suffer a default (Law), to permit an action to be called without appearing to answer.

To delineate. [Obs.] These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.

and soon. Gower. Tully was long ere he could be delivered of a few verses, and those poor ones. Peacham.

e demand of a creditor; a note payable on demand. The demand [is] by the word of the holy ones. Dan. iv. 17. He that has confidence to turn his wishes into demands will be but a little way from thinking he ought to obtain them. Locke.

iness it is to clean, extract, or repair natural teeth, and to make and insert artificial ones; a dental surgeon.

sm] The fairy Glorians, whose credibility on this point can not be called in question, depones to the confinement of Merlin in a tree. Dunlop.

ported at the top by stays or guys, with suitable tackle for hoisting heavy weights, as stones in building. Derrick crane, a combination of the derrick and the crane, having facility for hoisting and also for swinging the load horizontally.

That may descend from an ancestor to an heir. "A descendant estate." Sir W. Jones.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds (Desmognathæ), including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.

shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.

An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.