Crossword-Solution: BONELIKE 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Bonelike growths appeared on the head, and the two groups of the ruminants became specialized,--the deer with bony antlers, shed and renewed each year, and the ruminants with hollow horns, whose two bony knobs upon the skull are covered with permanent, pointed, horny sheaths.

Later investigation revealed that all the dead on the _Charleston_ had assumed a similar, bonelike solidity.

Draped in long streamers of Spanish moss which were delicately swayed by an almost imperceptible current of air, this was a ghoulish place--suggesting a rookery for shrouded spirits which perched along the bonelike branches awaiting their resurrection.