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. |
Bullen-nail (n.) A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered. |
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. |
Marrow (n.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones |
Marrow (n.) The essence |
Marrow (n.) One of a pair |
Marrow (v. t.) To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat |
Medullary (a.) Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, marrow or medulla. |
Medullary (a.) Pertaining to the medula oblongata. |
Medullary (a.) Filled with spongy pith |
Nail (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. |
Nail (n.) The basal thickened portion of the anterior wings of certain hemiptera. |
Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds. |
Nail (n.) A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them. |
Nail (a.) A measure of length, being two inches and a quarter, or the sixteenth of a yard. |
Nail (n.) To fasten with a nail or nails |
Nail (n.) To stud or boss with nails, or as with nails. |
Nail (n.) To fasten, as with a nail |
Nail (n.) To spike, as a cannon. |
Nail-headed (a.) Having a head like that of a nail |
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone () See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone () See rewel bone. |