'Bone' definitions:
Definition of 'bone'
From: WordNet
adjective
Consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body"
noun
Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates [syn: bone, os]
noun
The porous calcified substance from which bones are made [syn: bone, osseous tissue]
noun
verb
Study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone]
verb
Remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it" [syn: bone, debone]
Definition of 'Bone'
From: GCIDE
- Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.]
- 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. [1913 Webster]
- Note: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. [1913 Webster]
- 4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. [1913 Webster]
- 5. pl. Dice. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Fig.: The framework of anything. [1913 Webster]
- 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 (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black.
- Bone cave, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc.
- Bone dust, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer.
- Bone earth (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium.
- Bone lace, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.
- Bone oil, an oil obtained by heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called Dippel's oil.
- Bone setter. Same as Bonesetter. See in the Vocabulary.
- Bone shark (Zool.), the basking shark.
- Bone spavin. See under Spavin.
- Bone turquoise, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
- Bone whale (Zool.), a right whale.
- To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Obs.]
- To make no bones, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low]
- To pick a bone with, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bone'
From: GCIDE
- Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Boned (b[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Boning.]
- 1. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." --Soyer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. --Ash. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To fertilize with bone. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To steal; to take possession of. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bone'
From: GCIDE
- Bone \Bone\, v. t. [F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.] 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. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. --W. M. Buchanan. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adamant,
- aitchbone,
- anklebone,
- anvil,
- backbone,
- bill,
- biscuit,
- bony,
- breastbone,
- brick,
- buck,
- calcaneus,
- cannon bone,
- carpal,
- cartilage,
- cement,
- chine,
- clavicle,
- coccyx,
- collarbone,
- con,
- concrete,
- contemplate,
- cracker,
- cranium,
- cubes,
- cuboid,
- diamond,
- dice,
- dig,
- drill,
- dust,
- elucubrate,
- examine,
- fibula,
- fish,
- flint,
- frogskin,
- funny bone,
- go over,
- granite,
- grind,
- hammer,
- heart of oak,
- hyoid bone,
- incus,
- iron,
- ivory,
- jawbone,
- kneecap,
- ligament,
- lucubrate,
- malleus,
- mandible,
- marble,
- maxilla,
- maxillary,
- metacarpal,
- metatarsal,
- mummy,
- nails,
- nasal bone,
- oak,
- occipital bone,
- osseous,
- ossicle,
- ossicular,
- ossiferous,
- ossified,
- osteal,
- parchment,
- patella,
- pelvis,
- peruse,
- phalanges,
- phalanx,
- plunge into,
- pore over,
- practice,
- pubis,
- rachidial,
- rachis,
- radius,
- read,
- regard studiously,
- restudy,
- review,
- rib,
- rock,
- sacrum,
- scaphoid,
- scapula,
- sesamoid bones,
- shinbone,
- shoulder blade,
- skin,
- skull,
- smacker,
- sphenoid,
- spinal column,
- spine,
- stapes,
- steel,
- sternum,
- stick,
- stirrup,
- stone,
- study,
- swot,
- talus,
- tarsus,
- temporal bone,
- tendon,
- thighbone,
- ulna,
- vertebra,
- vertebral column,
- vet,
- wade through,
- wishbone,
- wristbone,
- zygomatic bone
Words containing 'Bone'
- Boned,
- Boning,
- bone up,
- bones,
- A bone of contention,
- A bone to pick,
- Bicched bones,
- Bone Gap,
- Bone ash,
- Bone black,
- Bone breccia,
- Bone cave,
- Bone dust,
- Bone earth,
- Bone lace,
- Bone oil,
- Bone setter,
- Bone shark,
- Bone spavin,
- Bone turquoise,
- Bone whale,
- Cannon bone,
- Canon bone,
- Cartilage bone,
- Cheek bone,
- Chevron bones,
- Coffin bone,
- Collar bone,
- Coronary bone,
- Cramp bone,
- Crazy bone,
- Cuttle bone,
- Dry bone,
- Ethmoid bone,
- Exercise bone,
- Funny bone,
- Girdle bone,
- Haunch bone,
- Hip bone,
- Huckle bone,
- Hyoid bone,
- Innominate bone,
- Napier's bones,
- Nasal bones,
- Natch bone,
- Navicular bone,
- Palatine bones,
- Petrosal bone,
- Plate bone,
- Plowshare bone,
- Presphenoid bone,
- Pterygoid bone,
- Quadrate bone,
- Quadratojugal bone,
- Rewel bone,
- Rider's bone,
- Rowel bone,
- Ruell bone,
- Scaphoid bone,
- Scapholunar bone,
- Semilunar bone,
- Sesamoid bones,
- Shin bone,
- Sphenethmoid bone,
- Sphenoid bone,
- Sphenotic bone,
- Splenial bone,
- Splint bone,
- Stifle bone,
- Stirrup bone,
- Supraoccipital bone,
- Temporal bone,
- Thigh bone,
- To be upon the bones of,
- To make no bones,
- To pick a bone with,
- Tongue bone,
- Tympanic bone,
- Unciform bone,
- Whale's bone,
- Wishing bone,
- Wormian bones,
- arm bone,
- bare bone,
- bare bones,
- bone age,
- bone cell,
- bone char,
- bone china,
- bone dry,
- bone fat,
- bone marrow,
- bone of contention,
- calf bone,
- capitate bone,
- carpal bone,
- cuboid bone,
- cuneiform bone,
- elbow bone,
- fetter bone,
- flat bone,
- frontal bone,
- hamate bone,
- hook bones,
- ischial bone,
- jugal bone,
- lacrimal bone,
- leg bone,
- long bone,
- lunate bone,
- make no bones about,
- malar bone,
- mandibular bone,
- mastoid bone,
- membrane bone,
- metacarpal bone,
- nasal bone,
- neck bone,
- occipital bone,
- palatine bone,
- parietal bone,
- pin bone,
- pisiform bone,
- pubic bone,
- pyramidal bone,
- round bone,
- sesamoid bone,
- short bone,
- shoulder bone,
- skin and bones,
- sutural bone,
- tail bone,
- tarsal bone,
- trapezium bone,
- trapezoid bone,
- triquetral bone,
- turbinate bone,
- wedge bone,
- wormian bone,
- wrist bone,
- zygomatic bone,
- Bone Gap, IL,
- Dry-boned,
- bare-bones,
- big-boned,
- bone-covered,
- bone-dry,
- bone-idle,
- bone-lazy,
- fibrous dysplasia of bone,
- great pastern bone,
- light-boned,
- marble bones disease,
- red bone marrow,
- small pastern bone,
- strong-boned,
- t-bone steak,
- yellow bone marrow,
- Long-boned shad,
- bone-ash cup,
- bone-forming cell,
- bone-headed dinosaur