| bondager | A field worker, especially. A woman who works in the field. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| bondar | <zoology> A small quadruped of Bengal (Paradoxurus bondar), allied to the genet. Synonym: musk cat. Origin: Native name. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bonding | <dentistry> The process of attaching brackets to your teeth using a special safe glue. (08 Jan 1998) |
| bonding, human-pet | The emotional attachment of individuals to pets. (12 Dec 1998) |
| bondmaid | A female slave, or one bound to service without wages, as distinguished from a hired servant. Origin: Bond,or+ maid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bondswoman | See Bondwoman. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bonduc | <botany> See Nicker tree. Origin: F. Bonduc, fr. Ar. Bunduq hazel nut, filbert nut. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bondwoman | Origin: Bond,or+ woman. A woman who is a slave, or in bondage. "He who was of the bondwoman." (Gal. Iv. 23) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bone | 1. <anatomy> The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. 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. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. 5. Dice. 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. 7. 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. <mathematics> Bone black, a right whale. To be upon the bones of, to attack. To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. Origin: OE. Bon, ban, AS. Ban; akin to Icel. Bein, Sw. Ben, Dan. & D. Been, G. Bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. Beinn straight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bone abscess | Suppuration within the medullary cavity (osteomyelitis), cortex, or periosteum of bone. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone ache | A dull pain in the bones, often severe; an extreme variety occurs in dengue. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone age | The stage of development of bone as adjudged by radiography, in contrast to chronologic age. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone architecture | The pattern of trabeculae and associated structures. See: Wolff's law. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone ash | Ca3(PO4)2;used as an antacid. Synonym: bone ash, bone phosphate, tertiary calcium phosphate, tricalcium phosphate, whitlockite. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bone banks | Centres for acquiring, characterizing, and storing bones or bone tissue for future use. (12 Dec 1998) |