- Backbone
- The ridge of a hill.
- The back or dorsal region of an animal; the upper side of
an appendage or part; as, the dorsum of the tongue.
- Backbone
- Vertebral column
- What a worm lacks and somehow pines for?
- A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.
- A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.
- One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
- The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called
from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.
- Backbone
- Hard work
- Pluck spirit mettle
- Pluck; spirit; mettle
- Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of
tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.
- An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of
spunk.
- The backbone
- A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin
Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep.
- The backbone or spine of an animal; the back.
- A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining
parts, cut for cooking. [See Illust. of Beef.]
- The edge or rim of a cask, etc., formed by the projecting
ends of the staves; the chamfered end of a stave.
- To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces.
- Too chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine..