Word Meanings - INTERMETACARPAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between the metacarpal bones.

BONESET
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
METACARPAL
Of or pertaining to the metacarpus. -- n.
BETWEEN
betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
BONESETTER
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
BONESHAW
Sciatica.
WHETTLEBONES
The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
RACKABONES
A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
INTERMETACARPAL
Between the metacarpal bones.
SAWBONES
A nickname for a surgeon.
NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
LAZYBONES
A lazy person.
CROSSBONES
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
GO-BETWEEN
An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
BLOODYBONES
A terrible bugbear.