Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The most finely divided portion of ground bones, separated from the coarser parts by sifting: used as a fertilizer.
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The ease with which bones when ground into a fine state of division putrefy, is evidenced by the fact that bone-flour has to be salted in order to enable it to keep.
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