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A roundish, flattened, sesamoid bone in the tendon in front of the knee joint; the patella; the kneecap.

To join; to cause to grow together. Nature can not knit the bones while the parts are under a discharge. Wiseman.

Union formed by knitting, as of bones. Knitting machine, one of a number of contrivances for mechanically knitting stockings, jerseys, and the like. -- Knitting , a stiff rod, as of steel wire, with rounded ends for knitting yarn or threads into a fabric, as in stockings. -- Knitting sheath, a sheath to receive the e…

rotuberance; a hard swelling or rising; a bunch; a lump; as, a knob in the flesh, or on a bone.

ncon in France, in the 17th century. It is very durable and of great beauty and cost. -- Bone lace, Brussels lace, etc. See under Bone, Brussels, etc. -- Gold lace, or Silver lace, lace having warp threads of silk, or silk and cotton, and a weft of silk threads covered with gold (or silver), or with gilt. -- Lace le…

Pertaining to the lachrymal organs; as, lachrymal bone; lachrymal duct.

eanic fish (Albula vulpes), found both in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonefish, grubber, French mullet, and macabé.

like the Greek letter lambda (as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull.

te or scale; a laying over another; -- said of thin plates or platelike substances, as of bone or minerals.

Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder. Youatt.

artly on small animals, which it kills. It has the habit of carrying tortoises and marrow bones to a great height, and dropping them on stones to obtain the contents, and is therefore called bonebreaker and ossifrage. It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible. Called also bearded vulture and bearded eagle. [Writt…

The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammal…

Having a broad breastbone, or sternum; -- said of anthropoid apes.

divines; latitudinarian theology. Latitudinarian sentiments upon religious subjects. Allibone.

g out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacterium leprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination of antibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.

ssel. The blood is colorless; the brain, renal organs, and limbs are wanting, and the backbone is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

ugh band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.

hat live to a great age are long in reaching maturity. Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.

man being or quadruped, which extends on either side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the false ribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. See Illust. of Beef.

Any abnormal curvature of the bones.