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The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

A lazy person. [Colloq.]

of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.

A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.

Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

by means of chlorpicrin, and is believed to be a derivative of the hypothetical normal carbonic acid, C.(OH)4.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.

A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]

Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.

To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. His saddle was of rewel boon. Chaucer.

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

The principles and practices of the Ribbonmen. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

A member of the Ribbon Society. See Ribbon Society, under Ribbon.

A malvaceous tree (Hoheria populnea) of New Zealand, the bark of which is used for cordage.

The backbone. [Obs.] Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.

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

See rewel bone. [Obs.]