Word Meanings - TIBIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The inner, or preaxial, and usually the larger, of the two bones of the leg or hind limb below the knee.

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• INNERVATION
  Special activity excited in any part of the nervous system or in any organ of sense or motion; the nervous influence necessary for the maintenance of life,and the functions of the various organs. (more info) 1. The act of innerving or stimulating.
• INNERLY
  More within. Baret.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.
• BONESET
  A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
• BELOWT
  To treat as a lout; to talk abusively to. Camden.
• INNERVE
  To give nervous energy or power to; to give increased energy,force,or courage to; to invigorate; to stimulate. (more info) Etym:
• PREAXIAL
  Situated in front of any transverse axis in the body of an animal; anterior; cephalic; esp., in front, or on the anterior, or cephalic side of the axis of a limb.
• INNER
  1. Further in; interior; internal; not outward; as, an spirit or its phenomena. This attracts the soul, Governs the inner man,the nobler part. Milton. 3. Not obvious or easily discovered; obscure. Inner house , the first and second divisions of
• INNERMOST
  Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.
• BELOW
  1. In a lower place, with respect to any object; in a lower room; beneath. Lord Marmion waits below. Sir W. Scott. 2. On the earth, as opposed to the heavens. The fairest child of Jove below. Prior. 3. In hell, or the regions of the dead. What
• BONESETTER
  One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
• INNERVATE
  To supply with nerves; as, the heart is innervated by pneumogastric and sympathetic branches.
• BONESHAW
  Sciatica.
• WHETTLEBONES
  The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• RACKABONES
  A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
• SAWBONES
  A nickname for a surgeon.
• WINNER
  One who wins, or gains by success in competition, contest, or gaming.
• SPINNERULE
  One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.
• TINNER
  1. One who works in a tin mine. 2. One who makes, or works in, tinware; a tinman.
• NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
  A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
• WHINNER
  To whinny.
• LAZYBONES
  A lazy person.
• SPINNER
  A goatsucker; -- so called from the peculiar noise it makes when darting through the air. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, spins one skilled in spinning; a spinning machine. 2. A spider. "Long-legged spinners." Shak.
• CROSSBONES
  A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
• FINNER
  A finback whale.
• FURBELOW
  A plaited or gathered flounce on a woman's garment.
• DINNERLESS
  Having no dinner. Fuller.