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. |
Calf (n.) The young of the cow, or of the Bovine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale. |
Calf (n.) Leather made of the skin of the calf |
Calf (n.) An awkward or silly boy or young man |
Calf (n.) A small island near a larger |
Calf (n.) A small mass of ice set free from the submerged part of a glacier or berg, and rising to the surface. |
Calf (n.) The fleshy hinder part of the leg below the knee. |
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. |
Fibula (n.) A brooch, clasp, or buckle. |
Fibula (n.) The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee. |
Fibula (n.) A needle for sewing up wounds. |
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone () See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone () See rewel bone. |
Sea calf () The common seal. |
Splinter (n.) To split or rend into long, thin pieces |
Splinter (n.) To fasten or confine with splinters, or splints, as a broken limb. |
Splinter (v. i.) To become split into long pieces. |
Splinter (n.) A thin piece split or rent off lengthwise, as from wood, bone, or other solid substance |