speal-bone

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The shoulder blade. Scotland,obsolete
    — In heteroscopic divination the process is rather one of inference from external facts. The methods are very various. […] In haruspication, or the inspection of entrails, in scapulomancy or divination by the speal-bone or shoulder-blade, in divination by footprints in ashes, found in Australia, Peru and Scotland, the voluntary element is prominent, for the diviner must take active steps to secure the conditions necessary to divination.

词形变化

speal-bones plural

词源

A variant of spule (“shoulder”) + bane (“bone”).
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