Bone
English Translation from English to English dictionary online for the word Bone
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1 n.
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
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2 n.
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.
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3 n.
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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4 n.
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
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5 n.
Dice.
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6 n.
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
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7 n.
Fig.: The framework of anything.
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8 v. t.
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
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9 v. t.
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
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10 v. t.
To fertilize with bone.
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11 v. t.
To steal; to take possession of.
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12 v. t.
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.
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13 n.
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
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14 n.
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.
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15 n.
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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16 n.
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
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17 n.
Dice.
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18 n.
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
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19 n.
Fig.: The framework of anything.
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20 v. t.
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
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21 v. t.
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
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22 v. t.
To fertilize with bone.
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23 v. t.
To steal; to take possession of.
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24 v. t.
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.