Beef (n.) An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state |
Beef (n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food. |
Beef (n.) Applied colloquially to human flesh. |
Beef (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, beef. |
Beef-witted (n.) Stupid |
Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine |
Bone (n.) One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton |
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. |
Bone (n.) Dice. |
Bone (n.) Whalebone |
Bone (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything. |
Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. |
Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into |
Bone (v. t.) To fertilize with bone. |
Bone (v. t.) To steal |
Bone (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. |
Cannon bone () See Canon Bone. |
Canon bone () The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse. |
Collar bone () The clavicle. |
Cuttle bone () The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. |
Napier's bones () Alt. of Napier's rods |
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone () See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone () See rewel bone. |
Shank (n.) See Chank. |
Shank (v.) The part of the leg from the knee to the foot |
Shank (v.) Hence, that part of an instrument, tool, or other thing, which connects the acting part with a handle or other part, by which it is held or moved. |
Shank (v.) That part of a key which is between the bow and the part which enters the wards of the lock. |
Shank (v.) The middle part of an anchor, or that part which is between the ring and the arms. |
Shank (v.) That part of a hoe, rake, knife, or the like, by which it is secured to a handle. |
Shank (v.) A loop forming an eye to a button. |
Shank (v.) The space between two channels of the Doric triglyph. |
Shank (v.) A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it. |
Shank (v.) The body of a type. |
Shank (v.) The part of the sole beneath the instep connecting the broader front part with the heel. |
Shank (v.) A wading bird with long legs |
Shank (v.) Flat-nosed pliers, used by opticians for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. |
Shank (v. i.) To fall off, as a leaf, flower, or capsule, on account of disease affecting the supporting footstalk |