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bone

/bəʉn/
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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  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.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.
Synonyms:ribstay

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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