ossuar, ossary

[Latin o uarium, from os (gen it. o is )=a bone.] 1. A charnel-house; a place where the bones of the dead were deposited; a marble sarcophagus, in which was placed a gla ve el containing ashes of IMG:content-0397.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0398.png:[blocks in formation] "Courtship, and such fair ostents of love." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 8. 2. External appearance or show; air, manner, "Like one well studied in a sad ostent ." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 2. "Comfortle and tastele ostentation."-Macaulay: 3. External show or display; appearance. "Maintain a mourning ostentation." making a display from vanity. 1. Fond of show, parade, or pomp; boastful, vain; Queensland. With empty actions and vain pa ions stuff'd." Words worth: Excursion, bk. v. 2. Characterized by ostentation, show, or parade; showy, gaudy. "Le ostentatious, and yet studded thick With hopeful gems." Cowper : Task , iii. 420. os-ten-tā-tious-lý, adv . [Eng. ostentatious ; -ly.] In an ostentatious manner; with ostentation, show, or parade; boastfully. *õs-těn'-tial, *os-těn'-tiall (ti a h), a. [Eng. ostent ; -ial .] Ostentatious. "The breath of his divulg'd pretense, Suited with fit ostent i all instruments." Tourneur: On Sir F. Vere, 562. *õs-těn-tive, a. [Eng. ostent; -ive.] Ostent a tious. "Though once ostentive , curious to be seene, Thou in some corner now would'st wish to lurke." Stirling: Domesday; Sixth Houre. *õs-těn'-to us, a. [Eng. ostent ; -ous.] Ostent a tious. "He left this ostentous inscription upon a great marble pillar." -Howell. Letters , bk. i., § 5, let. 29. Anat. (pl.): Germs ultimately depositing con- centric layers of bone inside the canals of that organic substance. ( Quain .) ŏs-tě-o-çēle, s . [Pref. osteo- , and Greek kēlē a tumor.] Pathol.: A tumor of the consistency of cartilage 2. Min .: The carbonate of lime deposited on reeds or marsh plants by mineral springs. ŏs-tě-ô-com-mą, s. [Pref. osteo- , and English comma .] Anat .: A vertebra; a metamere of the skeleton of a vertebrate; an osteomere. os-te-o-cope, s . [Gr. osteokopos , from osteon =a bone; kopos = a striking, a pain, from kop to =to strike; Fr. ostéocope .] Pain in the bones; bone- ache. IMG:content-0399.png:[blocks in formation] Anat. & Physiol.: A soft, transparent substance developing into bone. os-tě-o-gen-ě-sis, s. [Pref. osteo- , and English genesis (q. v.).] Anat . & Embryol .: The genesis or production of bone. os-tě-ô-gen-ě-sỹ, s. [Pref. osteo- , and Gr. gen- , base of gennaō =to beget.] Anat. & Embryol .: The same as OSTEOGENESIS (q.v.). IMG:content-0400.png:[ocr errors] IMG:content-0401.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0402.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Zool .: An order of minute Crustacea, sub-cla Entomostraca, division Lophyropoda. The entire body is inclosed in a shell or carapace, composed of two valves united along the back by a membrane. The branchise are attached to the posterior jaws, and there are only two or three pairs of feet, which subserve locomotion, but are not adapted for swimming. A distinct heart is present in Cyprid in a, but wanting in the freshwater Cypris and the 2. Palæont.: (See extract under Ostracode.) os-tra-code, a. [OSTRACOD A.] Belonging to "Small Ostracode Crustacea are extremely abundant as fo ils in many formations, and extend from the Cam brian up to the present day."-Nicholson: Zoology (1878), p. 297. os-tra-cos-tě-1, s. pl . [Gr. ostrakon a shell, and osteon a bone.] [PLACODERM AT A.] Ös-tra-goth, s . [OSTROGOTH.] os-tra-nite, s. [Named after the Scand in avian godde of Spring, Ostra (Ostara); n connective, and sutf. -ite ( Min .).] os-tre a, s. [Lat., from Gr. ostreon =an oyster.] 1. Zool .: Oyster (q. v.); the typical genus of the family Ostreide (q. v.). Upper valve of shell flat or concave, lower convex; the animal has the mantle-margin double, gills nearly equal, united, and, with the mantle-lobes, forming a branchial chamber; sexes distinct. Seventy species are known, from tropical and temperate seas. Ostrea edulis is the Common Oyster. 2. Palæont .: Two hundred species, from the Car- boniferous onward, in this country, Europe, and India. os-tre-a-cŭl-ture, s. [Lat. ostrea =an oyster, and cultura =cultivation.) The artificial cultiva- tion or breeding of oysters. suff. -ide .] os-tre-i-dæ, s . pl . [Lat. ostre (a); fem. pl. adj. Zool. & Palæont.: A marine family of Conch if era, section A siphon ide. Shell inequivalve, slightly in equilateral, free or attached; hinge usually toothle , ligament internal. Lobes of the mantle entirely separated; foot small and by iferous, or wanting; a single adductor muscle. Woodward enumerates the following genera: Ostrea, Anomia, Placuna, Pecten, Lima, Spondyl us, and Plicatula; to which Tate adds Pernostrea (q. v.), which links this family, which came into existence in Carbon- iferous times, to the Aviculidæ. os-tre-oph-a-gist, s. [Gr. ostreon =an oyster, and phage in =to eat.] One who eats or feeds upon oysters; an oyster-eater. õs'-trich, *os-trice, *os-truce, *oys-tryche, s. [O. Fr. ostrusce , ostruche ; Fr. autriche ; Ital.struz- zolo , struzzo , from Latin ( avis ) struthio =ostrich (bird); Gr. strouthos = stroutho - kamēlos . Called kamēlos , or camel, from its camel-like neck.] 1. Ornithology: (1) Struthio camel us , from the deserts of Africa and Arabia. It is the largest of all living birds, standing from six to eight feet in height, and has been known from remote antiquity [2]; Xenophon mentions it in the Anabasis (i. 5), as found in the plains of Artemisia, and there are frequent refer- ences to it in later Roman literature. Helio gab alus is said to have had a dish served up composed of the brains of six hundred ostriches. Hunters report that the flesh is palatable. The ostrich is hunted and bred for the sake of the quill feathers of the wings and tail, now ow used by ladies, though formerly ostrich plumes decked the helmets of knights, still later, the hats of the Cavaliers, and the fashion ostrich is a vegetable feeder, but swallows stones, bits of iron, and other hard substances to aid the gizzard in its functions. On ostrich-farms newly- hatched birds have been observed to pick up little stones before taking any food. The head and neck are nearly naked, body black, quill feathers of wings and tail white. The wings are usele for flight, but of so much a istance in running that the bird can outstrip the fleetest horse. Ostriches are polygamous, the hens lay their eggs in a common nest-a hole scratched in the sand, and the cock- bird relieves the hens in the task of incubation, which is aided by the heat of the sun. [STRUTHIO.] (2) The name Ostrich is often given loosely to individuals of the genera Rhea (q. v.) and Dromaius (q. v.). 2. Scrip .: The renanim , of Job xxxix. 13, were obviously ostriches, as were the yeenim , of Lam. iv. 3. The bathhaiyaanah , of Lev. xi. 16, Deut. xiv. 15, Job xxx. 29, and Isa. xxxiv. 13, xliii. 20, rendered owl in the A. V., seems also to have been the ostrich, and is so translated in the R. V. *ostrich-board, s . Arch.: A wainscot. by treatment with hot alcohol. It crystallizes in soluble in alcohol, ether, and cold ammonia. Its slender, colorle , silky needles, melting dilute alcoholic solution po e es a sky-blue fluor- escence. "A bony tube, which as a natural otacoustic is so directed backward as to receive the smallest and most dis- tantsound." -Grew: Cosmo. Saora, bk. i., oh. v. ōt-a-cous-tic-on, s. [OTACOUSTIC.] The same as OTACOUSTIC (q. v.). ""Sir, this is called an otacousticon.' 'A cousticon! IMG:content-0403.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0404.png:[blocks in formation] ō-tăl-gỹ, s. [OTALGIA.]