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cuttle-bone
ˈcuttle-bone The internal shell of the cuttle-fish, a light, cellular, calcareous body of an elongated oval form enclosed in the substance of the mantle; formerly used in medicine as an antacid and absorbent, and now for pounce, as a polishing material, etc.1547 Salesbury Welsh Dict., Bron alarch, S...
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Shadow Captain (novel)
The crew goes out to secure supplies, but when they return they find Cuttle skulking near their rooms. Cuttle falls off a balcony and dies. Chasco - Bone reader aboard the White Widow.
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cuttle
▪ I. cuttle, n.1 (ˈkʌt(ə)l) Forms: 1 cudele, 5 codull(e, cotul(l, 6–7 cuttell, (7 cudle, cuttel, cuddell, 9 dial. coodle, cuddle), 6– cuttle; also 6 scuttel, 7–8 scuttle. [OE. cudele, also in OLow-Frankish, c 1100 (Grimm); of unknown derivation. The original form survives in the dialectal cuddle, co...
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Pierre Fauchard
He suggested that substitutes could be made from carved blocks of ivory or bone and those artificially-made dental pieces would be useful as the natural The dentrifice Fauchard recommends is a mixture of coral, dragon's blood, burnt honey, seed pearls, cuttle fish bone, crayfish eyes, bol d'armerie, terre
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sepiostaire
sepiostaire Zool. (siːpɪəˈstɛə(r)) Also in shortened form sepiost. [ad. F. sépiostaire, f. Gr. σηπία sepia + ὀστοῦν bone + -aire (cf. -ary).] = cuttle-bone.1836 Buckland Geol. & Min. II. 67 Sepia officinalis, shewing the position of the internal shell or sheath (Sepiostaire) within the dorsal portio...
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Sepia prashadi
The dorsal surface of the cuttle bone is pink, making it highly distinct. Off Mumbai, India, the dorsal mantle lengths measured from 55 to 95 mm.
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sepium
‖ sepium (ˈsiːpɪəm) Also in Gr. form sepion. [mod.L., a. Gr. σήπιον.] Cuttle-bone.[1752 Chambers's Cycl., Sepium, Sepiæ os, or testa, cuttle⁓fish bone is a white..testaceous substance.] 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 546/1 The Sepium or Cuttle-bone is a well⁓known substance, and formerly figured in th...
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Pilgrim badge
Manufacture and use
Pilgrim badges were cheaply mass-produced in bronze, cuttle-bone or limestone moulds or, less frequently, by die-stamping.
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scuttle
▪ I. scuttle, n.1 (ˈskʌt(ə)l) Forms: 1, 4 scutel, 4–5 scutell, 5 scutelle (scutylle, scwtylle, scotel(l, scotill, -ylle, scotle, schewtell, scuttyl, skuttel, skuttyl), 6 skottell, (scutle) 6–7 scuttell, 6–9 skuttle, 6– scuttle. [OE. scutel in sense 1, prob. pronounced with (sk), ad. L. scutella dish...
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osselet
osselet (ˈɒsəlɪt, ˈɒslɛt) Also 8 oslet, osslet. [a. F. osselet a little bone (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. L. os, oss- bone: see -let.] 1. A little bone, an ossicle; one of the small bones of the carpus or tarsus.1686 A. Snape Anat. Horse v. xi. 219 The Seven Osselets or little Bones that make the Kn...
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List of Dickensian characters
Bunsby, Jack Sea-faring friend of Captain Cuttle who is always called in times of crisis for advice. The advice given confounds everyone listening except his friend Cuttle, who values it immensely.
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sepia
sepia (ˈsiːpɪə) Also 6–7 sæpia, 9 seppia. [a. L. sēpia, a. Gr. σηπία. The Latin word gave It. seppia, F. sèche, Sp. jibia, Pg. siba; F. sépia in sense 2 is from It., as is prob. also the Eng. word in that sense.] 1. The cuttle-fish; now rare exc. Zool. a cuttle of the genus Sepia or family Sepiidæ; ...
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