Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any bone of the wrist or carpus; a carpal bone. See carpus, wrist, and cuts under hand, pisiform, and scapholunar.
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Examples
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If effeminacy were completely a function of nature, wouldn't all gay men need a wrist-bone implant?
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Here, for instance, is a Porpoise: here is its strong backbone, with the cavity running through it, which contains the spinal cord; here are the ribs, here the shoulder blade; here is the little short upper-arm bone, here are the two forearm bones, the wrist-bone, and the finger-bones.
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Never mind the whole point of the evolutionists, which is that it is a frigging *wrist-bone* modified to take on a finger-like function.
And the Winner of the First Annual Quote-Mine-Off is... - The Panda's Thumb
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Immediately Saskia started to panic, gasping out loud in shock as the door opened to admit his PA in the same heartbeat as Andreas reached out and manacled Saskia's fragile wrist-bone in the firm grip of his fingers and thumb.
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Anne de Beaupré, had a small piece of the wrist-bone of the mother of the Virgin, which would heal and had healed thousands.
As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
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Great Relic to the basilica, the wrist-bone of St. Anne.
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Now a wrist-bone snapped in his iron grip, now a shoulder was wrenched from its socket as he forced a victim's arm backward and upward.
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Page 186 was thrown out violently by the blow, but no bone was broken, and not a drop of blood drawn -- only a large lump over the wrist-bone, red and angry looking.
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The piece of her wrist-bone is there in the sacristy -- it look like a wee scrap of some gray moss under the glass.
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Here, for instance, is a Porpoise: here is its strong backbone, with the cavity running through it, which contains the spinal cord; here are the ribs, here the shoulder blade; here is the little short upper-arm bone, here are the two forearm bones, the wrist-bone, and the finger-bones.
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