Also 5 north. the-bane. The bone of the thigh; the femur; in quot. 1825 as an emblem of death: cf. cross-bones.
c. 1450. St. Cuthbert (Surtees), 5849. Men wend his the bane had bryst.
1615. Crooke, Body of Man, 999. On the foreside at the roote of the necke the thighbone is large and rough.
1825. J. Neal, Bro. Jonathan, III. 295. I begin to see a thighbone or two, now.
1889. Mivart, On Truth, 148. The girdle to which the thigh-bones are articulated.
