exossationt (eksosashon)

[ -ion.] The act of exo ating, or depriving of bones or of any similar hard substance; the state of being so deprived. Experiment solitary touching the exo ation of fruits. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 854. exo eoust (ek-sos'ē-us), a. [ exo is , ex o us , bonele (see exo ate ), + -eous . Cf. 08 seo us .] Having no bones; bonele . The like also in snails, a soft and exo eous animal, whereof in the naked and greater sort nature, neer the head, hath placed a flat white stone, or rather testaceous concretion. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., iii. 13. IMG:content-0907.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0908.png:[blocks in formation] exostosis. Erasmus Wilson, Anat.-2. O ified externally; derm o eous. The gaseous, liquid, and solid molecular conditions, being characters distinguishing otherwise allied substances in the same way morphologically (we can not say yet deor derm o eous characters distinguish otherwise nearly allied genera. E. D. Cope , Origin of the Fittest, p. 46. velopmentally) as the cartilaginous, o eous, and exostosed