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To prophesy; to presage. [R. & Obs.] R. Edgeworth.

A prophetic or ominous utterance. [R. & Obs.] Holland.

A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.

The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.

A little bone.

Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.

A species of sturgeon.

Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard. The compositions might be fairly classed as Ossianic. G. Eliot.

A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

Having small bones.

Same as Ossicle.

Containing or yielding bone.

Capable of producing bone; having the power to change cartilage or other tissue into bone.

The state of being changed into a bony substance; also, a mass or point of ossified tissue.

Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.

The lammergeir.

Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.

Fig.: To harden; as, to ossify the heart. Ruskin.

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

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