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An evidence of debt or of property, as a bond, a certificate of stock, etc.; as, government securities.

Shaped like a half moon. Semilunar bone (Anat.), a bone of the carpus; the lunar. See Lunar, n. -- Semilunar, or Sigmoid, valves (Anat.), the valves at the beginning of the aorta and of the pulmonary artery which prevent the blood from flowing back into the ventricle.

be called internal sense." Locke. -- Sense capsule (Anat.), one of the cartilaginous or bony cavities which inclose, more or less completely, the organs of smell, sight, and hearing. -- Sense organ (Physiol.), a specially irritable mechanism by which some one natural force or form of energy is enabled to excite sens…

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

A small bone between the nasal septum and the maxilla in many reptiles and amphibians.

A portion of dead bone which becomes separated from the sound portion, as in necrosis.

One in a state of subjection or bondage. Thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt. Deut. v. 15.

or a slave; to be employed in labor or other business for another; to be in subjection or bondage; to render menial service. The Lord shall give thee rest . . . from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve. Isa. xiv. 3.

The quality or state of being servile; servileness. To be a queen in bondage is more vile Than is a slave in base servility. Shak.

to a master; the condition of being bound to service; the condition of a slave; slavery; bondage; hence, a state of slavish dependence. You would have sold your king to slaughter, His princes and his peers to servitude. Shak. A splendid servitude; . . . for he that rises up early, and goeSouth.

Of or pertaining to the sesamoid bones or cartilages; sesamoidal. Sesamoid bones, Sesamoid cartilages (Anat.), small bones or cartilages formed in tendons, like the patella and pisiform in man.

To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state; to replace; as, to set a broken bone.

The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.

Hence, that which checks or prevents free action. His very will seems to be in bonds and shackles. South.

The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts.

The part of the leg from the knee to the foot; the shin; the shin bone; also, the whole leg. His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank. Shak.

The public bone.

essing; as, sharp pain, weather; a sharp and frosty air. Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. The morning sharp and clear. Cowper. In sharpest perils faithful proved. Keble.

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank. "On his shin." Chaucer.

Made or gathered into a shirr; as, a shirred bonnet.