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Ossicle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small bone.

Ossicle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A little bone; as, the auditory ossicles in the tympanum of the ear.

2. One of numerous small calcareous structures forming the skeleton of certain echinoderms, as the starfishes.