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      bone
      noun
      (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
      (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
      A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
      An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
      One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
      Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
      A bonefish.
      (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
      (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
      (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
      (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
      (figurative) The framework of anything.
      One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
      (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
      (figurative) A reward.
      A surname.
      An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
      (slang) Clipping of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]
      verb
      To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
      (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, ambitransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
      (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
      (usually with "up") To study.
      To polish boots to a shiny finish.
      To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
      (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
      To put whalebone into.
      (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
      To fertilize with bone.
      (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
      adjective
      Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
      adverb
      Used before an adjective as an intensifier
      Synonyms for bone
      ossiferousadjostealadjaitchbonenosseousadjbonyadjthighbonencartilagenossiclenfibulanmetacarpaln
      Words related to bone
      ossificadjedgeboneknuckleboneostosisosseinendostosisboneblackfemurnosteoclasisngomphosisethmoidnperioticadjamphiarthrosistibiotarsushipboneneburnationncartilaginoidadjischiumncondylenosteotomeendosteumnpaxwaxmylohyoidadjgristlenxysterdiaphysisnskeletaladjtibianvomernosteoplasticadj

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