bone

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.

Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.

No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

A bonefish.

The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

One of the fish stalls specialized in boning shad, and he who has never eaten a boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.

The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned, stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

To fertilize with bone.

He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

To put whalebone into.

Having my stays very fully boned and fitted with shoulder-straps.

To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

To have sexual intercourse (with).

O Memmius, well and slowly did you bone me, supine, day by day, with the whole of that beam.

We’re bonin’ on the dark blocks / Wearin’ out the shocks, wettin’ up the dashboard clock