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One skilled in osteotomy.

The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.

Same as Vertebrata.

The mouth of a river; an estuary. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians. Schoolcraft.

The exterior opening of a stomate. See Stomate.

See Osteitis.

An opening; a passage.

See Hostler.

A female ostler. [R.] Tennyson.

See Hostelry. [Obs.]

East men; Danish settlers in Ireland, formerly so called. Lyttelton.

Bone formation; ossification. See Ectostosis, and Endostosis.

A division of bivalve mollusks including the oysters and allied shells.

Any one of a family of bivalves, of which the oyster is the type.

A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered with solid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.

A fish of the genus Ostracion and allied genera.

Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they grow too great. Bacon. Sentenced to a perpetual ostracism from the . . . confidence, and honors, and emoluments of his country. A. Hamilton.

A fossil oyster.

To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens. Grote.