He may be described as follows:tall, bony, thin, angular, with gray moustaches, lank air, a mean countenance.

He may be described as follows:tall, bony, thin, angular, with gray moustaches, lank air, a mean countenance.

In the walls of these vessels may be gradually deposited a morbid product, the result of disordered nutrition, sometimes chalky, sometimes bony, with usually a dangerous dilatation of the tube.

This curious exhibition may perhaps remind some of my readers of the ludicrous lines, made, during Sir Robert Walpole's administration, on Mr. George (afterwards Lord) Lyttelton, though the figures of the two personages must be allowed to be very different: 'But who is this astride the pony; So long, so lean, so lank, so bony?

adamant, adamantine, adamantean^; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic^, vitreous; horny, corneous^; bony; osseous, ossific^; cartilaginous; hard as a rock &c n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker;

The bony, muscular, and venous structure of its legs and feet is accurately indicated.

Prominent bony points like the cheek bones, the elbows and the knees, the knuckle joints of the hands and feet.

adamant, adamantine, adamantean^; concrete, stony, granitic, calculous, lithic^, vitreous; horny, corneous^; bony; osseous, ossific^; cartilaginous; hard as a rock &c n.; stiff as buckram, stiff as a poker;

He is aged sixty-one, is six feet high, weighs about one hundred and seventy, is lean, bony, obstinate, irritable, economical, frank, and without a particle of hypocrisy or conceit.