Definition of Bone

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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.

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Bone Quotations

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

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
Rodney Dangerfield

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.
Mike Tyson

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

And, we have no such thing as a budget anymore. Our manager freaks when we show him the bill. We're lavish to the bone, but all our money goes back into the product.
Freddie Mercury

The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
Ralph Ellison

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London

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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