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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.

Hardened, or bony, integument of various animals.

anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.

One of the bony, cartilaginous, or membranous partitoins which separate the myotomes. -- Scler`o*tom"ic, a.

Something thin, lean, or rough; a bony piece; especially, a bony neckpiece of meat; hence, humorously or in contempt, the neck. Lady MacScrew, who . . . serves up a scrag of mutton on silver. Thackeray.

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.

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

crip, consol scrip, etc. When all the installments are paid, the scrip is exchanged for a bond share certificate.

Writing; document; scroll. [Obs.] "Of every scrit and bond." Chaucer.

ncy to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may develop into general or loca…

Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales.

A bony scale of a reptile or fish; a large horny scale on the leg of a bird, or on the belly of a snake.

Formed like a plate or salver; composed of platelike surfaces; as, the scutellated bone of a sturgeon. Woodward.

a seal; as, to give a deed under hand and seal. Till thou canst rail the seal from off my bond Thou but offend;st thy lungs to speak so loud. Shak.

, any one of a series of alcohols which contain the radical CH.OH united with two hydrocarbon radicals. On oxidation the secondary alcohols form ketones. -- Secondary amputation (Surg.), an amputation for injury, performed after the constitutional effects of the injury have subsided. -- Secondary axis (Opt.), any lin…