Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OS'SE-LET, n. [Fr. from L. or, ossis, a bone.]

A hard substance growing on the inside of a horse's knee, among the small bones. Far. Dirt.

OS'SE-OUS, a. [L. osseus, from os, a bone.]

Bony; resembling bone. Parkhurst.

OS'SI-CLE, n. [L. ossiculum.]

A small bone. Holder.

OS-SIF'ER-OUS, a. [L. os, a bone, and fero, to produce.]

Producing or furnishing bones. Buckland.

OS-SIF'IC, a. [L. os, a bone, and facio, to make.]

Having power to ossify or change carneous and membranous substances to bone. Wiseman.

OS-SI-F'I-CA'TION, n. [from ossify.]

1. The change or process of changing from flesh or other matter of animal bodies into a bony substance; as, the ossification of an artery. Sharp.
2. The formation of bones in animals.

OS'SI-FI-ED, pp.

Converted into bone, or a hard substance like bone.

OS'SI-FRAGE, n. [L. ossifraga. See Osprey.]

The ospray or sea-eagle. In Leviticus xi. I3, it denotes a different fowl.

OS'SI-FY, v.

To become bone; to change from soft matter into a substance of bony hardness.

OS'SI-FY, v.t. [L. os, bone, and facio, to form.]

To form bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, or convert into a substance of the hardness of bones. This is done by the deposition of calcarious phosphate or, carbonate on the part. Sharp. Ure.

OS-SI-FY'ING, ppr.

Changing into bone; becoming bone.

OS'SU-A-RY, n. [L. ossuarium.]

A charnel house; a place where the bones of the dead are deposited. Dict.

OS-TEN-SI-BIL'I-TY, n. [See Ostensible.]

The quality or state of appearing or being shown.

OS-TEN'SI-BLE, a. [It. ostensibile, from ostendo, to show.]

1. That may be shown; proper or intended to be shown. Warton.
2. Plausible; colorable. Pownall.
3. Appearing; seeming; shown, declared or avowed. We say, the ostensible reason or motive for a measure may be the real one, or very different from the real one. This is the common, and I believe the only sense in which the word is used in America. One of the ostensible grounds on which the proprietors had obtained their charter. Ramsay.

OS-TEN'SI-BLY, adv.

In appearance; in a manner that is declared or pretended. An embargo and non-intercourse which totally defeat the Iatemms they are ostensibly destined to promote. Walsh.

OS-TEN'SIVE, a. [Fr. from ostendo.]

Showing; exhibiting. Ostensive demonstration, is one which plainly and directly demonstrates the truth of a proposition. Cyc.

OS'TENT, n. [L. ostentum, from ostendo.]

1. Appearance; air; manner; mien. [Little used.] Shake.
2. Show; manifestation; token. [Little used.] Shak.
3. A prodigy; a portent; any thing ominous. [Little used.] Chapman. Dryden.

OS'TENT-ATE, v.t. [L. ostento.]

To make an ambitious display of; to show or exhibit boastingly. [Not used.] Taylor.

OS-TENT-A'TION, n. [L. ostentatio.]

1. Outward show or appearance. Shak.
2. Ambitions display; vain show; display of any thing dictated by vanity, or intended to invite praise or flattery. Ostentation of endowments is made by boasting or self-commendation. Ostentation often appears in works of art and sometimes in acts of charity. He knew that good and bountiful minds are sometimes inclined to ostentation. Atterbury. The painter is to make no ostentation of the means by which he strikes the imagination. Reynolds.
3. A show or spectacle. [Not used.] Shake.

OS-TENT-A'TIOUS, a.

1. Making a display from vanity; boastful; fond of presenting one's endowments or works to others in an advantageous light. Your modesty is so far from being ostentatious of the good you do. Dryden.
2. Showy; gaudy; intended for vain display; as, ostentatious ornaments.

OS-TENT-A'TIOUS-LY, adv.

With vain display; boastfully.

OS-TENT-A'TIOUS-NESS, n.

Vain display; boastfulness; vanity.

OS'TENT-A-TOR, n. [L.]

One who makes a vain show; a boaster. [Little used.] Sherwood.

OS-TENT'OUS, a.

Fond of making a show. [Little used.] Feltham.

OS'TE-O-COPE, n. [Gr. {foreign}, a bone, and {foreign}, labor, uneasiness.]

Pain in the bones; a violent fixed pain in any part of a bone. Quincy. Coxe.