exosso

exosso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to deprive of the bones, to bone:

mirum ni hic me quasi muraenam exossare cogitat,

Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 163:

congrum,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 24; cf.:

congrum, muraenam exdorsua... exossata fac sient,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 9, 3; id. Am. 1, 1, 162.—Hence, trop., to break the power of, to make helpless, Vulg. Jer. 50, 17.— Poet.: exossato pectore, boneless, i. e. flexible (cf. exos), Lucr. 4, 1271:

exossatus ager,

i. e. without stones, cleared, Pers. 6, 51.