Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of exossating, or depriving of bones or of any similar hard substance; the state of being so deprived.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A depriving of bone or of fruit stones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The removal of
fruit stones .
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Examples
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The faulty despotism in symbols amounting in the title-page to the, and occasionally, irregular unmodified lines of the inanimate, sometimes as the effect of rigidity and sometimes of exossation like a wet tendon.
Letter to C. A. Tulk 1818
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