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Consisting of ebony.

One who works in ebony.

A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

To make black, or stain black, in imitation of ebony; as, to ebonize wood.

Made of ebony, or resembling ebony; black; as, an ebony countenance. This ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling. Poe.

A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin. Shak.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.

ess; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

Debonairness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Courteously; elegantly.

The quality of being debonair; good humor; gentleness; courtesy. Sterne.

Same as Aitchbone.

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

The public bone.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

Shoulder blade. [Prov. Eng.]

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, and for various other purposes. See Baleen.

The vertebræ of the back. [Prov. Eng.] Dunglison.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.