Definition of bone

• n. - The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
• n. - Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
• n. - Dice.
• n. - Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
• n. - Fig.: The framework of anything.
• v. t. - To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
• v. t. - To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
• v. t. - To fertilize with bone.
• v. t. - To steal; to take possession of.
• 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.
• n. - The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
• n. - 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.
• n. - Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
• n. - Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
• n. - Dice.
• n. - Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
• n. - Fig.: The framework of anything.
• v. t. - To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
• v. t. - To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
• v. t. - To fertilize with bone.
• v. t. - To steal; to take possession of.
• 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.