English Dictionary

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Source : opted (17968)  - auto

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.
Source : opted (17969)  - auto

Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Source : opted (17970)  - auto

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
Source : opted (17971)  - auto

Dice.
Source : opted (17972)  - auto

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
Source : opted (17973)  - auto

Fig.: The framework of anything.
Source : opted (17974)  - auto

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
Source : opted (17977)  - auto

To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
Source : opted (17978)  - auto

To fertilize with bone.
Source : opted (17979)  - auto