Bone

[bəʊn] or [bon]

Definition

(noun.) a shade of white the color of bleached bones.

(noun.) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.

(noun.) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made.

(verb.) remove the bones from; 'bone the turkey before roasting it'.

(adj.) consisting of or made up of bone; 'a bony substance'; 'the bony framework of the body' .

Typist: Sanford--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

(n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; 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. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.

(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.

(v. t.) 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.

Inputed by Eunice

Definition

n. a hard substance forming the skeleton of mammalian animals: a piece of the skeleton of an animal: (pl.) the bones collectively: mortal remains: pieces of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music: dice as made of bone ivory &c.—v.t. to take the bones out of as meat: to seize to steal.—ns. Bone′-ache (Shak.) aching or pain in the bones; Bone′-ash Bone′-earth the remains when bones are burnt in an open furnace; Bone′-black the remains when bones are heated in a close vessel.—adj. Boned—used in composition as high-boned: having bones: having the bones removed.—ns. Bone′-dust ground or pulverised bones used in agriculture; Bone′-lace lace woven with bobbins which were frequently made of bone.—adj. Bone′less wanting bones.—ns. Bone′-set′ter one who treats broken bones without being a duly qualified surgeon; Bone′-shāk′er a name familiarly given to the earlier forms of bicycle before india-rubber tires; Bone′-spav′in a bony excrescence or hard swelling on the inside of the hock of a horse.—adj. Bon′y full of or consisting of bones.—A bone of contention something that causes strife; A bone to pick something to occupy one a difficulty a grievance controversy dispute.—To make no bones of to have no scruples in regard to something; To the bone to the inmost part.

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