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Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak.

The spiny dogfish.

See Ladyfish.

Without bones. "Boneless gums." Shak.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

Sciatica. [Obs.]

See Bonito. Sir T. Herbert.

Having a bud or button, or a kind of trefoil, at the end; furnished with knobs or buttons. Cross bottony (Her.), a cross having each arm terminating in three rounded lobes, forming a sort of trefoil.

A curve, in which a body, starting from a given point, and descending solely by the force of gravity, will reach another given point in a shorter time than it could by any other path. This curve of quickest descent, as it is sometimes called, is, in a vacuum, the same as the cycloid.

See Dengue.

The bone of the breast; the sternum.

Made of, or pertaining to, brimstone; as, brimstone matches. From his brimstone bed at break of day A-walking the devil has gone. Coleridge.

A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.

cks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones. [Written also burrstone.]

A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.] Shak.

See Buhrstone.

See Buhrstone.

A liquid ketone obtained by heating calcium butyrate.