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Definition of Spine
Spine
A sharp appendage to any of a plant; a thorn.

A rigid and sharp projection upon any part of an animal.

One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.

The backbone, or spinal column, of an animal; -- so called from the projecting processes upon the vertebrae.

Anything resembling the spine or backbone; a ridge.


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Spine Quotations
The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
Glenn Beck

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
Sally Field

I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
Conor Oberst

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
Brian Lumley

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
Lawrence Welk

My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.
Dick York

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Don Henley


I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
P. D. James

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
Angela Bassett

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.
Barry Watson

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.
Johnny Mercer

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction.
Robert Nelson

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Patricia Schroeder

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Spine Translations
spine in Danish is rygrad
spine in Dutch is wervelkolom, spin, ruggegraat
spine in Spanish is espina






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