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erebellum from the cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skull called the bony tentorium.

s found in newborn children, which is made up of a heterigenous mixture of tissues, as of bone, cartilage and muscle.

- Tertiary syphilis (Med.), the third and last stage of syphilis, in which it invades the bones and internal organs.

king pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like purposes; also, a similar piece of ivory, bone, wood, etc., used as a ticket of admission to theaters, or as a certificate for successful gladiators, and as a token for various other purposes. Fairholt.

ing to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth. [Written also tetradon.]

structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.

The coxa, or femur, of an insect. Thigh bone (Anat.), the femur.

to drill or thrill. See Thrill. [Obs. or Prov.] That with a spear was thirled his breast bone. Chaucer.

Same as Boneset.

The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude. [Written also thralldom.] Women are born to thraldom and penance And to be under man's governance. Chaucer. He shall rule, and she in thraldom live. Dryden.

A slave; a bondman. Chaucer. Gurth, the born thrall of Cedric. Sir W. Scott.

Not enslaved; not subject to bonds.

ne of the lower segments in the hyoid arch, often consolidated with the body of the hyoid bone and forming one of its great horns, as in man.

the upper part of the trachea. -- Thyroid dislocation (Surg.), dislocation of the thigh bone into the thyroid foramen. -- Thyroid foramen, the obturator foramen.

The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

A tibial bone; a tibiale.

The bone or cartilage of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia and corresponds to a part of the astragalus in man and most mammals.

The large bone between the femur and tarsometatarsus in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the proximal part of the tarsus with the tibia.

A fossil rhinoceros with a vertical bony medial septum supporting the nose; the hairy rhinoceros.

A game in which the object is to snap small disks of bone, ivory, or the like, from a flat surface, as of a table, into a small cup or basket; --called also tiddlywinks. [U. S.]