bone
/bəʉn/
Dictionary
noun
- A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- A bonefish
- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
- Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
- The framework of anything.
- An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- A dollar.
- The wishbone formation.
- An erect penis; a boner.
- (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
verb
- To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- To fertilize with bone.
- To put whalebone into.
"to bone stays"
- To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
"boning rod"
- (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
- (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
- (usually with "up") To study.
"bone up"
- To polish boots to a shiny finish.
adjective
- Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
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