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To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of ostentating or of making an ambitious display; unnecessary show; pretentious parade; -- usually in a detractive sense. "Much ostentation vain of fleshly arm." Milton. He knew that good and bountiful minds were sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury.

Fond of, or evincing, ostentation; unduly conspicuous; pretentious; boastful. Far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden. The ostentatious professions of many years. Macaulay. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ly, adv. -- Os`ten*ta"tious*ness, n.

One fond of display; a boaster. Sherwood.

Ostentatious. [Obs.]

Ostentatious. [Obs.] Feltham.

A combining form of Gr. a bone.

One of the protoplasmic cells which occur in the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum, and from or around which the matrix of the bone is developed; an osteoplast.

The operation of breaking a bone in order to correct deformity.

An instrument for performing osteoclasis.

lc tufa, which in some places forms incrustations on the stems of plants, -- formerly supposed to have the quality of uniting fractured bones.

A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. Owen.

Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. -- Os`te*o*cop"ic, a.

The bony cranium, as distinguished from the cartilaginous cranium.

A hard substance, somewhat like bone, which is sometimes deposited within the pulp cavity of teeth.

The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

The formation or growth of bone.

Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.

Osteogenetic.

An osteologist.