bone

noun

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

noun

Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

noun

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

noun

A bonefish

noun

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

noun

One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

noun

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

noun

The framework of anything.

noun

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

noun

A dollar.

noun

The wishbone formation.

noun

An erect penis; a boner.

noun

(chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

verb

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

verb

To fertilize with bone.

verb

To put whalebone into.

"to bone stays"

verb

To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

"boning rod"

verb

(usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

verb

(in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

verb

(usually with "up") To study.

"bone up"

verb

To polish boots to a shiny finish.

adjective

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

verb

To apprehend, steal.

verb

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

noun

A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

"Jim plays the trombone very well."