Vocabulary : Bone to Boneshaw
Bone : The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. ;; 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. ;; Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. ;; Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. ;; Dice. ;; Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. ;; Fig.: The framework of anything. ;; To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. ;; To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. ;; To fertilize with bone. ;; To steal; to take possession of. ;; 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.Boneache : Pain in the bones.
Boneblack : See Bone black, under Bone, n.
Boned : of Bone ;; Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. ;; Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish. ;; Manured with bone; as, boned land.
Bonedog : The spiny dogfish.
