hip-bone
[hip n.1]
The bone of the hip; i.e. either the ilium, or the ischium, or the os innominatum as a whole, or the upper part of the thigh-bone.
| c 1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 23 Þe schuldre boones & þe hipe boones [B. hepe bonys]. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 750/10 Clunis, a hepebone. 1668 Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. Man. iv. xvi. 351 Os Ischion or the Hip-bone is the third part. 1684 Wood Life 24 Sept. (O.H.S.) III. 109 Bridge-bone..that bone that holds the two hipp-bones together at the bottom of the belly. 1695 Bp. Patrick Comm. Gen. 459 That Sinew (or Tendon) which fastens the Hip-bone in its socket. |