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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A surgical instrument for scraping bones.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A surgeons' instrument for scraping bones.
  2. n. [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of fishes.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A surgical instrument used to scrape bones.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Surg.) An instrument for scraping bones.

Etymologies

  1. From Ancient Greek ξυστήρ ("xustēr"), from ξύω ("scrape"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Greek xūstēr, scraper, from xūein, to scrape. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • mercy Greek; a surgical instrument for scraping bones. Jan 3, 2009

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