bone
/bəʉn/
noun
Meaning
A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
The framework of anything.
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
A dollar.
The wishbone formation.
An erect penis; a boner.
(chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
Synonyms
verb
Meaning
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
"to bone stays"
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
"boning rod"
(usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
(in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(usually with "up") To study.
"bone up"
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
Synonyms
adjective
Meaning
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.