Bone : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Bone	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Bone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bone adj consisting of or made up of bone; "a bony substance"; "the bony framework of the body" n rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates Synonym(s): bone, os the porous calcified substance from which bones are made Synonym(s): bone, osseous tissue a shade of white the color of bleached bones Synonym(s): bone, ivory, pearl, off-white v study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" Synonym(s): cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone remove the bones from; "bone the turkey before roasting it" Synonym(s): bone, debone
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bone \Bone\, n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[be]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. 2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. 5. pl. Dice. 6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. 7. Fig.: The framework of anything. {A bone of contention}, a subject of contention or dispute. {A bone to pick}, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). {Bone ash}, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. {Bone black} (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also {animal charcoal}. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See {Ivory black}, under {Black}. {Bone cave}, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc. {Bone dust}, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bone \Bone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Boning}.] 1. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. [bd]To bone a turkey.[b8] --Soyer. 2. To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. --Ash. 3. To fertilize with bone. 4. To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bone \Bone\, v. t. [F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.] 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. --Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. --M. Buchanan.