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The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttoks.

A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [Colloq.]

lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone. [Written also sagbut.] Moore (Encyc. of Music).

acrosciatic formina formed by the sacrosciatic ligaments which connect the sacrum and hip bone.

A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.

The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.

gittal section of an animal. Sagittal suture (Anat.), the suture between the two parietal bones in the top of the skull; -- called also rabdoidal suture, and interparietal suture.

A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers. (Pici).

er material, resembling in size and thinness the scale of a fish; as, a scale of iron, of bone, etc.

. & n. from Scalp. Scalping iron (Surg.), an instrument used in scraping foul and carious bones; a raspatory. -- Scalping knife, a knife used by north American Indians in scalping.

The scaphoid bone. Scaphoid bone (a) One of the carpal bones, which articulates with the radius; the radiale. (b) One of the tarsal bones; the navicular bone. See under Navicular.

Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus. -- n.

The principal bone of the shoulder girdle in mammals; the shoulder blade.

A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

Having the maxillo-palatine bones separate from each other and from the vomer, which is pointed in front, as in the gulls, snipes, grouse, and many other birds.

Having the nasal bones separate.

A rawboned person. [Low] Halliwell.

Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone.

re, cutting away excesses and superfluous parts; to make smooth or clean; as, to scrape a bone with a knife; to scrape a metal plate to an even surface.