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noun

Spine n.

(Bot.) A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

(Zool.)

(a)

A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.

(b)

One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

(Anat.) The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.

Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.

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Etymology of 'Spine'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spine" Quotes from Famous Books

... made his legs move. He walked on through the shrouds of Death until he felt a taut singing in his nerves. An irrational fear sprang out in him, cascading down his spine, and Cully shuddered. Ahead there was something. Two motives: get there because it (they?) calls; ...

— Cully • Jack Egan

... should be inflated and thrown forward by the action of the diaphragm and held as the most prominent part of the body; a position too often usurped by the inferior abdomen. The same motion which throws out the chest should draw in the lower part of the trunk, hanging it from the curve of the spine. In the proper attitude for good breathing the hips turn slightly inward and the chin goes back, but not up. There should be no effort to throw back the shoulders. Take care of the chest, and the shoulders ...

— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke

... seen poor headstrong, wilful Cox pitch forward upon the mane of his horse, as if all at once his spine had been turned, into limp string; I saw now a ring of fire run out in spitting tongues of flame around the gulf, and a circle of thin whitish smoke slowly raise itself through the dark leaves of ...

— In the Valley • Harold Frederic

... other's neck and wept scalding rills down each other's spine in token of their banishment to the Realm of Ineffable Bosh. For one of these accursed creatures was the First of January, and the other the Twenty-fifth ...

— Fantastic Fables • Ambrose Bierce

... child will stand before the throne, and she will say, "On earth I had a curvature of the spine, and I was very weak, and I was very sick; but I used to gather flowers out of the wild-wood and bring them to my sick mother, and she was comforted when she saw the sweet flowers out of the wild-wood. I didn't do much, but I did something." And Christ shall say, as He takes ...

— New Tabernacle Sermons • Thomas De Witt Talmage

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