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d by, the action of light; -- formerly used specifically to designate a gas now called carbonyl chloride. See Carbonyl.

Syngnathus, and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body, covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long, tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which the incubation of the eggs takes place.

xtinct group of fishes, supposed to be ganoids. The body and head were covered with large bony plates. See Illust. under Pterichthys, and Coccosteus.

A division of ganoid fishes including those that have large external bony plates and a cartilaginous skeleton.

Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoids.

A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

il fishes with winglike appendages. The head and most of the body were covered with large bony plates. See Placodermi.

A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as that of birds.

A robber. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drummond. Rider's bone (Med.), a bony deposit in the muscles of the upper and inner part of the thigh, due to the pressure and irritation caused by the saddle in riding.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter between or on the small pastern and the great pastern bones. J. H. Walsh.

One of the small, thin, membranous, bony or horny pieces which form the covering of many fishes and reptiles, and some mammals, belonging to the dermal part of the skeleton, or dermoskeleton. See Cycloid, Ctenoid, and Ganoid. Fish that, with their fins and shining scales, Glide under the green wave. Milton.…

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.

Meager; thin; rawboned; bony; scranny.

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.

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…

ck, by which it is hung to the staple. Knight. Shackle joint (Anat.), a joint formed by a bony ring passing through a hole in a bone, as at the bases of spines in some fishes.