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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Bone \Bone\, n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[be]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. 2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. 5. pl. Dice. 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. 7. Fig.: The framework of anything. {A bone of contention}, a subject of contention or dispute. {A bone to pick}, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). {Bone ash}, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. {Bone black} (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also {animal charcoal}. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See {Ivory black}, under {Black}. {Bone cave}, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc. {Bone dust}, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Insecta \[d8]In*sec"ta\, n. pl. [NL. See {Insect}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) One of the classes of Arthropoda, including those that have one pair of antenn[91], three pairs of mouth organs, and breathe air by means of trache[91], opening by spiracles along the sides of the body. In this sense it includes the Hexapoda, or six-legged insects and the Myriapoda, with numerous legs. See {Insect}, n. 2. (Zo[94]l.) In a more restricted sense, the Hexapoda alone. See {Hexapoda}. 3. (Zo[94]l.) In the most general sense, the Hexapoda, Myriapoda, and Arachnoidea, combined. Note: The typical Insecta, or hexapod insects, are divided into several orders, viz.: {Hymenoptera}, as the bees and ants; {Diptera}, as the common flies and gnats; {Aphaniptera}, or fleas; {Lepidoptera}, or moths and butterflies; {Neuroptera}, as the ant-lions and hellgamite; {Coleoptera}, or beetles; {Hemiptera}, as bugs, lice, aphids; {Orthoptera}, as grasshoppers and cockroaches; {Pseudoneuroptera}, as the dragon flies and termites; {Euplexoptera}, or earwings; {Thysanura}, as the springtails, podura, and lepisma. See these words in the Vocabulary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Aphanipterous \Aph`a*nip"ter*ous\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to the Aphaniptera. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Clover \Clo"ver\ (kl[omac]"v[etil]r), n. [OE. claver, clover, AS. cl[aemac]fre; akin to LG. & Dan. klever, D. klaver, G. klee, Sw. kl[94]fver.] (Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus {Trifolium}; as the common red clover, {T. pratense}, the white, {T. repens}, and the hare's foot, {T. arvense}. {Clover weevil} (Zo[94]l.) a small weevil ({Apion apricans}), that destroys the seeds of clover. {Clover worm} (Zo[94]l.), the larva of a small moth ({Asopia costalis}), often very destructive to clover hay. {In clover}, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] {Sweet clover}. See {Meliot}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense. 2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the United States. {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation. --Thackeray. {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Avon By The Sea, NJ Zip code(s): 07717 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Avon Park, FL (city, FIPS 2750) Location: 27.59323 N, 81.50366 W Population (1990): 8042 (3964 housing units) Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 2.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 33825 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Avon-by-the-Sea, NJ (borough, FIPS 2440) Location: 40.19100 N, 74.01524 W Population (1990): 2165 (1371 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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