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between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.

particular kind of writing practiced by the ancient Irish, and found in inscriptions on stones, metals, etc. [Written also ogam.]

below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and comprising various strata of siliceous sandstones and conglomerates. See Sandstone, and the Chart of Geology. -- Old school, a school or party belonging to a former time, or preserving the character, manner, or opinious of a former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -…

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.

A single person or thing. "The shining ones." Bunyan. "Hence, with your little ones." Shak. He will hate the one, and love the other. Matt. vi. 24. That we may sit, one on thy right hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. Mark x. 37. After one, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- At one, in agreem…

nace (Metal.), a blast furnace having a forehearth. -- Open harmony (Mus.), harmony the tones of which are widely dispersed, or separated by wide intervals. -- Open hawse (Naut.), a hawse in which the cables are parallel or slightly divergent. Cf. Foul hawse, under Hawse. -- Open hearth (Metal.), the shallow hearth…

Having small bones.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A kind of glue obtained from bones. Ure.

Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. -- Os`te*o*cop"ic, a.

The description of bones; osteology.

The science which treats of the bones of the vertebrate skeleton.

A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

Divination by means of bones. [R.]

Any disease of the bones. [R.]

An instrument for transmission of auditory vibrations through the bones of the head, so as to be appreciated as sounds by persons deaf from causes other than those affecting the nervous apparatus of hearing.

Having bones in the fins, as certain fishes.

The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.