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Definition of Bone

1. Noun. Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates.

2. Verb. Study intensively, as before an exam. "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam"

3. Adjective. Consisting of or made up of bone. "The bony framework of the body"

4. Noun. The porous calcified substance from which bones are made.

5. Verb. Remove the bones from. "Bone the turkey before roasting it"

6. Noun. A shade of white the color of bleached bones.

Definition of Bone

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

Definition of Bone

1. Adjective. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. ¹

2. Noun. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. ¹

3. Noun. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. ¹

4. Noun. A bone of a fish; a fishbone ¹

5. Noun. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. ¹

6. Noun. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone. ¹

7. Noun. (US informal) A dollar. ¹

8. Noun. (slang) An erect penis; a boner. ¹

9. Noun. (slang) Dominoes or dice. ¹

10. Noun. (slang) (form of shortened form trombone) ¹

11. Verb. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. ¹

12. Verb. To furnish with bone. ¹

13. Verb. (context: civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. ¹

14. Verb. (vulgar slang of a man) To have sexual intercourse with. ¹

15. Verb. (Australia dated) (context: in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim. ¹

16. Verb. (context: usually with "up") To study. ¹

17. Verb. To polish boots to a shiny finish. ¹

18. Verb. (transitive slang) To apprehend, steal. ¹

19. Verb. (context: carpentry masonry surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bone

1. to debone [v BONED, BONING, BONES] - See also: debone

Medical Definition of Bone

1. 1. The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. 2. 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. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 4. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. 5. Dice. 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. 7. The framework of anything. A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. Bone black, a right whale. To be upon the bones of, to attack. To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. Origin: OE. Bon, ban, AS. Ban; akin to Icel. Bein, Sw. Ben, Dan. & D. Been, G. Bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. Beinn straight. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bone

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bonduc nut bonduc tree bonducs bondwoman bondwomen bone-ash cup bone-chilling bone-covered bone-crunching bone-dry

bone-dry(a) bone-eating snot flower worm bone-fire bone-fires bone-forming cell bone-headed dinosaur bone-idle bone-lazy bone-marrow

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