bone
/boʊn/ noun A1- 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 this material.
- 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- One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.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.
Plural bones
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Peter Blewett only by sight as a small, shrewish-faced woman without an ounce of superfluous flesh on her bones.
They make you also guard their sheep, and while they eat the mutton throw only the bones to you.
A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.
When the Crane had extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: “Why, you have surely already had a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a wolf.”
Other matches
- bone To apprehend, steal. C2
- bone To prepare C2
- bone To sight along an object or set of objects to c... C2
- Bone A Rockwell B-1 Lancer bomber aircraft. C2
- bone Used before an adjective as an intensifier C2
- bone Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. C2
- bone down To have sex with
- bone out To leave
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