Word Meanings - BREASTBONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The bone of the breast; the sternum.

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• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• BREASTHOOK
  A thick piece of timber in the form of a knee, placed across the stem of a ship to strengthen the fore part and unite the bows on each side. Totten.
• BREAST-HIGH
  High as the breast.
• BREASTBAND
  A band for the breast. Specifically: A band of canvas, or a rope, fastened at both ends to the rigging, to support the man who heaves the lead in sounding.
• BREASTFAST
  A large rope to fasten the midship part of a ship to a wharf, or to another vessel.
• BREAST
  1. The fore part of the body, between the neck and the belly; the chest; as, the breast of a man or of a horse. 2. Either one of the protuberant glands, situated on the front of the chest or thorax in the female of man and of some other mammalia,
• BREASTBEAM
  The front transverse beam of a locomotive.
• BREASTROPE
  See BREASTBAND
• BREASTPIN
  A pin worn on the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• BREASTING
  The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has spent its force upon the wheel. See Breast wheel.
• BREAST-DEEP
  Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.
• STERNUM
  A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone. Note: The sternum is connected with the ribs or the pectorial girdle, or
• BREASTPLOW; BREASTPLOUGH
  A kind of plow, driven by the breast of the workman; -- used to cut or pare turf.
• BREASTSUMMER
  A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long
• BREASTHEIGHT
  The interior slope of a fortification, against which the garnison lean in firing.
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• HYPOSTERNUM
  See HYPOPLASTRON
• PRESTERNUM
  The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.
• CHIMNEY-BREAST
  The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.
• PROSTERNUM
  The ventral plate of the prothorax of an insect.
• BREST; BREAST
  A torus.