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To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

Changing into bone; becoming bone; as, the ossifying process.

Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds. Derham.

The osprey. [R.]

A charnel house; an ossuary. Walpole.

A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

See Oast.

Osseous.

Ossein.

Inflammation of bone.

Same as Hosteler. Wyclif.

To exhibit; to manifest. [Obs.] Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend. J. Webster.

The quality or state of being ostensible.

Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. D. Ramsay.

In an ostensible manner; avowedly; professedly; apparently. Walsh. Ostensibly, we were intended to prevent filibustering into Texas, but really as a menace to Mexico. U. S. Grant.

The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the communicants.

Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration (Math.), a direct or positive demonstration, as opposed to the apagogical or indirect method.

In an ostensive manner.

Same as Monstrance.

Manifestation; token; portent. Dryden. We asked of God that some ostent might clear Our cloudy business, who gave us sign. Chapman.