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. |
Calcaneum (n.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel |
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. |
Heel (v. i.) To lean or tip to one side, as a ship |
Heel (n.) The hinder part of the foot |
Heel (n.) The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc. |
Heel (n.) The latter or remaining part of anything |
Heel (n.) Anything regarded as like a human heel in shape |
Heel (n.) The part of a thing corresponding in position to the human heel |
Heel (n.) The after end of a ship's keel. |
Heel (n.) The lower end of a mast, a boom, the bowsprit, the sternpost, etc. |
Heel (n.) In a small arm, the corner of the but which is upwards in the firing position. |
Heel (n.) The uppermost part of the blade of a sword, next to the hilt. |
Heel (n.) The part of any tool next the tang or handle |
Heel (n.) Management by the heel, especially the spurred heel |
Heel (n.) The lower end of a timber in a frame, as a post or rafter. In the United States, specif., the obtuse angle of the lower end of a rafter set sloping. |
Heel (n.) A cyma reversa |
Heel (v. t.) To perform by the use of the heels, as in dancing, running, and the like. |
Heel (v. t.) To add a heel to |
Heel (v. t.) To arm with a gaff, as a cock for fighting. |
Lark's-heel (n.) Indian cress. |
Rewel bone () An obsolete phrase of disputed meaning, -- perhaps, smooth or polished bone. |
Rowel bone () See rewel bone. |
Ruell bone () See rewel bone. |
Wire-heel (n.) A disease in the feet of a horse or other beast. |