A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.
Clipping of trombone.
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
Used before an adjective as an intensifier
GWF, well almost anyway, 40, bone-lonely, desperately needs a friend in Southern Maine.
A surname.
An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, s...
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To apprehend, steal.
“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned, and who you had boned it from.”
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
Joiners, &c., bone their work with two straight edges.