- 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..
- Side - Side (of the body) - Side of a body of troops - Side part - Wing - The fleshy or muscular part of the side of an animal,
between the ribs and the hip. See Illust. of Beef. - The side of an army, or of any division of an army, as of a
brigade, regiment, or battalion; the extreme right or left; as, to
attack an enemy in flank is to attack him on the side.
- A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat)
by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by
crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some
little stearin. - An artificial butter made by churning this oil with
more or less milk.