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An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.

aracterized by a bony swelling developed on the hock as the result of inflammation of the bones; also, the swelling itself. The resulting lameness is due to the inflammation, and not the bony tumor as popularly supposed. Harbaugh. Bog spavin, a soft swelling produced by distention of the capsular ligament of the hock;…

mus. Speck falls (Naut.), falls or ropes rove through blocks for hoisting the blubber and bone of whales on board a whaling vessel.

To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

aining to both the sphenoidal and the ethmoidal regions of the skull, or the sphenethmoid bone; sphenethmoidal. Sphenethmoid bone (Anat.), a bone of the skull which surrounds the anterior end of the brain in many amphibia; the girdle bone.

Relating to the sphenoethmoid bone; sphenoethmoid.

combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the sphenoid bone; as in sphenomaxillary, sphenopalatine.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone. Sphenoid bone (Anat.), an irregularly shaped bone in front of the occipital in the base of the skull of the higher vertebrates. It is composed of several fetal bones which become united the adult. See Alisphenoid, Basisphenoid, Orbitosphenoid, Presphenoid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the sphenotic bone. Sphenotic bone (Anat.), a bone on the anterior side of the auditory capsule of many fishes, and connected with, or adjoining, the sphenoid bone.

One of a number of small pieces or pegs of wood, ivory, bone, or other material, for playing a game, or for counting the score in a game, as in cribbage. In the plural (spilikins), a game played with such pieces; pushpin. [Written also spillikin, spilliken.]

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebræ.

To dislocate, as a shoulder bone.

Designating the splenial bone.

other substance, used to keep in place, or protect, an injured part, especially a broken bone when set.

A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance; a thin piece; a sliver; as, splinters of a ship's mast rent off by a shot.

A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.

Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.

open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.