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n. The dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue forming the major portion of the skeleton of most vertebrates. It consists of a dense organic matrix and an inorganic, mineral component.

n. Any of numerous anatomically distinct structures making up the skeleton of a vertebrate animal. There are more than 200 different bones in the human body.

n. A piece of bone.

n. The skeleton.

n. The body.

n. Mortal remains.

n. An animal structure or material, such as ivory, resembling bone.

n. Something made of bone or of material resembling bone, especially:

n. A piece of whalebone or similar material used as a corset stay.

n. Informal Dice.

n. The fundamental plan or design, as of the plot of a book.

n. Flat clappers made of bone or wood originally used by the end man in a minstrel show.

n. The end man in a minstrel show.

v. To remove the bones from.

v. To stiffen (a piece of clothing) with stays, as of whalebone.

phrasal-verb. bone up Informal To study intensely, usually at the last minute: boned up for the final exam.

idiom. bone of contention The subject of a dispute.

idiom. bone to pick Grounds for a complaint or dispute.

n. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

n. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

n. A bone of a fish; a fishbone

n. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

n. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

n. A dollar.

n. An erect penis; a boner.

n. Dominoes or dice.

n. shortened form of trombone

adj. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

v. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

v. To furnish with bone.

v. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

v. To have sexual intercourse with.

v. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

v. To study.

v. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

v. To apprehend, steal.

v. To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

n. The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine.

n. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; ; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.

n. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

n. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

n. Dice.

n. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

n. Fig.: The framework of anything.

v. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

v. To put whalebone into.

v. To fertilize with bone.

v. To steal; to take possession of.

v. To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.

n. An animal tissue, consisting of branching cells lying in an intercellular substance made hard with earthy salts (consisting of calcium phosphate with small amounts of calcium carbonate and magnesium phosphate, etc.), and forming the substance of the skeleton or hard framework of the body of most vertebrate animals.

n. One of the parts which make up the skeleton or framework of vertebrate animals: as, a bone of the leg or head.

n. plural The bones of the body taken collectively; the skeleton; hence, the bodily frame; a body.

n. plural Mortal remains: the skeleton or bony structure being the most permanent part of a dead body.

n. The internal shell of cuttlefishes of the family Sepiidœ, having the consistency of bone. Generally called cuttle-bone or cuttlefish-bone.

n. Something made of bone, or of a substance resembling bone, as ivory, whalebone, etc.

n. plural A person who performs with the bones.

n. Half of the stake in the game of bone-ace (which see).

n. In coal-mining, slaty or clayey portions or partings in coal.

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To take out the bones of: as, to bone a turkey, a ham, etc.

To put whalebone into.

To manure with bone-dust.

To seize; make off with, as a dog makes off with a bone; get possession of; appropriate; steal.

To apply one's self diligently; set one's self determinedly to work: as, to bone down to hard work; he boned hard.

To take the level of (a piece of land, a wall, carpentry-work, and the like) by means of an instrument. See boning.

n. A Middle English form of boon.

A Middle English form of boon.

n. In card-playing, a chip of the smallest value.

n. A piece of horn or wood-fiber inserted in the sole of a wooden golf-club to prevent injury to the face of the club at the bottom.

n. The midrib of a leaf, especially that of a sugar-cane leaf or the large midrib of a palmleaf.

To ‘hold up’ with a demand or importunate request for something, as for a small loan: as, to bone one for a ‘fiver.’

v. study intensively, as before an exam

adj. consisting of or made up of bone

n. rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

v. remove the bones from

n. the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

n. a shade of white the color of bleached bones

"Or we read in the 37th chapter of the _Book of Ezekiel_ of that weird valley that was full of bones -- "_and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together bone to bone_," surely one of the most wonderful visions of the imagination in all literature."

bony    boney   

boned    bones    boning   

hit the books    study    remove    take    withdraw    take away    animal material    white    whiteness   

a bone to pick    ethmoid bone    cuneiform    epactal bone    coracoid    bag of bones    dissolved bone    angular bone    navicular    to find bones in   

dice    whalebone    steal    stay    rib    debone    bury the bone    fuck    shag    screw   

Bastogne    Bayonne    Capone    Cohn    Cologne    Dijon    Goan    Joan    Leone    Malone   

skin    stone    tooth    muscle    metal    leg    skull    hair    meat    shell