bone binder (bon binder)

A name for osteocolla (which see). bone-black (bōn'blak), n. The black carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in closed ve els. kind of charcoal is employed to deprive various solutions, particularly syrups, of their coloring matters, and to furnish a black pigment. Artificial bone-black consists of woody matters impregnated with calcium phosphate di olved in hydrochloric acid, thus resembling the real boneblack in composition. Also called animal black, animal charcoal.- Bone-black furnace, a furnace used in removing from bone-black, by burning, impurities collected in it during its use in filtration, decolorization, etc. bone-breaker (bōn'brā kér), n. 1. A name of the giant fulmar petrel, O ifraga gigantea. 2. A book-name of the osprey, fish-hawk, or o ifrage, Pandion haliaëtus. bone-breccia (bōn'brech"i-ä), n. In geol., a conglomerate of fragments of bones and limestone cemented into a rock by calcareous matter. Such deposits are of frequent occurrence in caverns which in prehistoric times were resorted to by man and wild beasts. IMG:content-2312.png:[blocks in formation] bone-cave (bōn'kāv), n. A cave in which are found bones of animals of living or extinct species, or species living only in far distant localities or a different climate within historic times, sometimes with the bones of man or other traces of his contemporaneous existence. The brick-earths also contain the remains of a species of lion (Felis spelæa), no longer living, but which is likewise found in some of the bone - caves of this country. Huxley, Physiography, p. 283. boned (bond), p. a. [ cut under dogfish. bone-dust (bon'dust), n. for use as manure. See bone1, n., 2. Bones ground to dust ing. [ bone, n.] I. trans. 1. To take out the bones of: as, to bone a turkey, a ham, etc. -2. To put whalebone into.-3. To manure with bone-dust.-4. To seize; make off with, as a dog makes off with a bone; get po e ion of; appropriate; steal. [Slang.] Why you were living here, and what you had boned, and who you boned it from, wasn't it? Dickens. eral residue of bones which have been calcined or burned with free acce of air so as to destroy the animal matter and carbon. It is a white, porous, and friable substance, composed chiefly of calcium phosphate, and is used by a ayers as the material for cupels and in making china, and for other purposes. Also called bone -ash. fish, macabé, or French mullet, Albula vulpes. See cut under ladyfish.-2. A fish of the fami ly Teuthididæ and genus Teuthis or Acanth urus; a surgeon or doctor-fish.-3. A name of the common dogfish, Squalus acanthi as, in southern New England. See cut under dogfish. bone-flower (bon'flou"er), n. In the north of England, the daisy, Bellis perennis. bone-gla (bōn'glás), n. A gla made by adding to white gla from 10 to 20 per cent. of white bone-earth, or a corresponding quantity of mineral phosphates. It is of a milk-white color, semi-opaque, and is used for lamp-shades, etc.