BONE

vt to fertilize with bone.

2. bone ·noun dice.

3. bone ·noun fig.: the framework of anything.

4. bone ·vt to put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

5. bone ·vt to withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

6. bone ·vt to steal; to take possession of.

7. bone ·noun anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

8. bone ·noun whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

9. bone ·noun two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

10. bone ·vt 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.

11. bone ·noun the hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

12. bone ·noun 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.