bone

Definitions

1. 1noun

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

2. 2noun

   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.

3. 3noun

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

4. 4noun

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

5. 5noun

   Dice.

6. 6noun

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

7. 7noun

   Fig.: The framework of anything.

8. 8transitive verb

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

9. 9transitive verb

   To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

10. 10transitive verb

    To fertilize with bone.

11. 11transitive verb

    To steal; to take possession of.

12. 12transitive verb

    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.

13. 13noun

    a shade of white the color of bleached bones

    Synonyms

    ivorypearl
14. 14noun

    rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

    Synonyms

    os
15. 15noun

    the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

16. 16verb

    remove the bones from

    "bone the turkey before roasting it"

    Synonyms

    debone
17. 17verb

    study intensively, as before an exam

    "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

    Synonyms

    cramdrumswot
18. 18adjective

    consisting of or made up of bone

    "a bony substance"

    "the bony framework of the body"