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Shoulder blade.

SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
SHOULDERED
Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
SHOULDER
The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
BLADEFISH
A long, thin, marine fish of Europe ; the ribbon fish.
BLADE
The principal rafters of a roof. Weale. 6. pl. (more info) Dan., & Sw. blad, Icel. bla, OHG. blat, G. blatt, and perh. to L. folium, Gr. . The root is prob. the same as that of AS. bl, E. blow, 1. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of
BLADEBONE
The scapula. See Blade, 4.
BLADESMITH
A sword cutler.
BLADED
Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife. (more info) 1. Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak. 2. Divested of blades; as, bladed corn.
HUMP-SHOULDERED
Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
TWYBLADE
See TWAYBLADE
TWAYBLADE
Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two
ROUND-SHOULDERED
Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.