Bone(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.
Bone(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.
Bone(n.)
- Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
Bone(n.)
- Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
Boning(n.)
- A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.