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Ossean
- - A fish having a bony skeleton; a teleost.
Ossein
- - The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal of the mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue, the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone; bone collagen; -- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.
Ossete
- noun - a northeastern Iranian language spoken in Russia
Ossian
- unknown - Irish (Gaelic/Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763),[1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian
Ossify
- verb - become bony; "The tissue ossified"
- cause to become hard and bony; "The disease ossified the tissue"
- make rigid and set into a conventional pattern; "rigidify the training schedule"; "ossified teaching methods"; "slogans petrify our thinking"
Ousels
- noun - common black European thrush
Ousted
- verb - remove and replace; "The word processor has ousted the typewriter"
- remove from a position or office; "The chairman was ousted after he misappropriated funds"
Ouster
- noun - a person who ousts or supplants someone else
- a wrongful dispossession
- the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out
Oxshoe
- - A shoe for oxen, consisting of a flat piece of iron nailed to the hoof.
Oyster
- noun - A person who can keep a secret
- a small muscle on each side of the back of a fowl
- edible body of any of numerous oysters
- gather oysters, dig oysters
- marine mollusks having a rough irregular shell; found on the sea bed mostly in coastal waters