bony : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bony	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for bony
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bony adj very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" Synonym(s): bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" Synonym(s): osseous, osteal, bony having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" Synonym(s): bony, boney Antonym(s): boneless
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bony \Bon"y\, a. 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. 2. Having large or prominent bones. {Bony fish} (Zo[94]l.), the menhaden. {Bony pike} (Zo[94]l.), the gar pike ({Lepidosteus}).