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Spine

noun

The series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord. Synonyms: back, backbone, rachis, spinal column, vertebral column.

Any sharply pointed projection. Synonyms: acantha, spur.

A small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf. Synonyms: pricker, prickle, spikelet, sticker, thorn.

The part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved. Synonym: backbone.

A sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin.

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... a small hut, lay MYalu motionless. His mind was a whirling red spot of rage and pain, obliterating the image of Bakuma, his ivory, and everything. From the base of the spine to his neck he was criss-crossed with bloody weals administered with a kiboko (whip of hippopotamus hide) by one of the black giants who formed the door guard at the tent of Eyes-in-the-hands. More stimulating to ...

— Witch-Doctors • Charles Beadle

... he went over to Boston, and those of the Boston man when he went over to Middlesex; and told one or two stories of his early days in Boston, where he was born. That was all. I felt as I listened as though a pail of ice- water had been poured down my spine. ...

— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar

... had ever curved That mute unearthly porter's spine. Like sleeping dragon's sudden eyes The signals ...

— The Wild Knight and Other Poems • Gilbert Chesterton

... a fall when hunting," replied the agent. "He was attempting to clear a stone wall, the horse fell back on him, and dislocated his spine. I was on the spot when the ...

— Japhet, In Search Of A Father • Frederick Marryat

... up my spine—crept up, crept down, and then criss-crossed. But she must know of her mistake before we had gone so far that putting me ashore would be a serious inconvenience—for I knew he would put me ashore at the nearest point, if not, indeed, set me adrift in ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

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