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Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.

limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.

erhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.

A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

us plants, usually covered with a viscid secretion by which insects are caught; catchfly. Bon Silène. See Silène, in the Vocabulary.

A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening.

A bony tube which, in some birds, connects the tympanium with the air chambers of the articular piece of the mandible.

The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

keleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.

A person who is held in bondage to another; one who is wholly subject to the will of another; one who is held as a chattel; one who has no freedom of action, but whose person and services are wholly under the control of another. thou our slave, Our captive, at the public mill our drudge Milton.

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

region or at any period; any community of individuals who are united together by a common bond of nearness or intercourse; those who recognize each other as associates, friends, and acquaintances.

A disease of horses characterized 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…

n's wide circuit, let it speak The maker's high magnificence. Milton. Report speaks you a bonny monk. Sir W. Scott.

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.