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OSSEOUS

bony

The meaning of the word osseous is bony.

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allegeto assert without proof or before proving
embargoan order of a government prohibiting the departure of commercial ships from its ports
premisea proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference
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exactto call for forcibly or urgently and obtain
carillona set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard
inclinedhaving inclination, disposition, or tendency
gyroscopea wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin
tantruma fit of bad temper
taxonomistthe study of the general principles of scientific classification : systematics