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ˈcuttle-bone
The internal shell of the cuttle-fish, a light, cellular, calcareous body of an elongated oval form enclosed in the substance of the mantle; formerly used in medicine as an antacid and absorbent, and now for pounce, as a polishing material, etc.
1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Bron alarch, Scuttel bone. 1575Turberv. Faulconrie 273 The powder of a cuttell bone. 1656Ridgley Pract. Physick 152 Driness of the Tongue is cured with scraping of cuttle bone. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 546/1 The..Cuttle-bone..formerly figured in the Materia Medica as an antacid. 1841Penny Cycl. XXI. 373/1 The cuttle-bone, as it is erroneously termed, consists of various membranes hardened by carbonate of lime, without the smallest mixture of phosphate. |