"Ossuary" Quotes from Famous Books
... also a large ossuary in the corner of the small churchyard, now disused. These ossuaries, or reliquaires, in the graveyards of Brittany were built to carry out a curious and somewhat barbarous custom. It was considered by "those of ... — The Argosy - Vol. 51, No. 3, March, 1891 • Various
... osteography, ossify, ossification, ossiferous, ossific, splint, marrow, ossivorous, ossuary, osteoplasty, caries, osteopathy, solen, necrosis, gangrene, rongeur, impaction, calcify, calcification, bursa, ossein, ... — Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming |