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An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.

The backbone. [Obs.] Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.

id growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

A nickname for a surgeon.

The public bone.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, bent double, slips into the outer parts, as in a telescope, so that by change of the vibrating length any tone within the compass…

To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

The huckle bone. [Obs.]

The forked bone in front of the breastbone in birds; -- called also merrythought, and wishing bone. See Merrythought, and Furculum.

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

tinued pain, as distinguished from sudden twinges, or spasmodic pain. "Such an ache in my bones." Shak.

d of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.

Of or pertaining to animal fat; fatty. Adipose fin (Zoöl.), a soft boneless fin. -- Adipose tissue (Anat.), that form of animal tissue which forms or contains fat.