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Definition of Bone

Bone The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. 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. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. Dice. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset. Fig.: The framework of anything. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. To fertilize with bone. To steal; to take possession of. 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. Related Definitions: Along, Also, An, And, Animal, Any, Anything, Arm, As, Be, Between, Blood, Bobbin, Body, Bone, Bony, Calcic, Calcified, Carbonate, Carpentry, Consisting, Cookery, Corset, Dice, Fertilize, Fig, Flesh, For, Four, Fragment, Frame, Framework, From, Gelatine, Hard, Held, Hence, If, In, Into, It, Kind, Lace, Largely, Leg, Level, Line, Made, Make, Masonry, Music, Object, Of, One, Or, Phosphate, Piece, Possession, Put, Rib, See, Set, Sight, Skeleton, Steal, Steel, Struck, Substance, Surveying, Take, The, They, Thigh, Tissue, To, Together, Two, Vertebrate, Very, Weaving, Whalebone, With, Withdraw

Bone Quotations Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. Henry David Thoreau The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn't go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he's got. Will Rogers I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. Andrew Wyeth The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws. Andrew Jackson I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. Bob Woodward

Bone Translations bone in Danish is ben bone in Dutch is schonk, bot, knok, been bone in Finnish is luu bone in French is os bone in German is Knochen bone in Italian is osso, spina bone in Norwegian is ben bone in Portuguese is osso bone in Spanish is hueso, oseo bone in Swedish is ben, knota

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