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A brooch, clasp, or buckle.

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  1. n. A brooch, clasp, or buckle.
  2. n. The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.
  3. n. A needle for sewing up wounds.
  4. n. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle
  5. 1. A brooch, clasp, or buckle. Mere fibulæ, without a robe to clasp. Wordsworth. 2. (Anat.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. 3. (Surg.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
  6. The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg,or hind limb, below the knee.
  7. n:100 n. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle