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Bone

noun

Rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates. Synonym: os.

The porous calcified substance from which bones are made. Synonym: osseous tissue.

A shade of white the color of bleached bones. Synonyms: ivory, off-white, pearl.

verb

(past & past part. boned; pres. part. boning)

Study intensively, as before an exam. Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up.

Remove the bones from. Synonym: debone.

adjective

Consisting of or made up of bone. "The bony framework of the body"

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"Bone" Quotes from Famous Books

... It is some fifteen miles in length, and consists of a series of open spaces, connected by narrow defiles, whose bottoms resemble the bed of a dry stream. The scenery is generally pretty, and abounds with interest from its being a constant bone of contention between the rival factions. As a defensive position it is undoubtedly strong; but there is nothing in the nature of the ground in reality to impede the advance of a determined force. While halted in one of the open spaces which I ...

— Herzegovina - Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels • George Arbuthnot

... blanched hand, little more now than skin and bone. David put his own into it awkwardly enough. At this period of his life he was ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... her father, and thus she was always near to wait upon him day or night. Mr. Sinclair's recovery was slow, and at first the doctor almost despaired of his life. It was a bad case of pneumonia brought on by his becoming over-heated while walking along the cut-out, and then getting chilled to the bone lying on the snow. To Lois it was a most anxious time, and during the first two weeks she seldom went out of the house. When at last her father was able to be left alone for a while she spent an hour or so out of ...

— Under Sealed Orders • H. A. Cody

... reverse of Armenia; and, despite Herodotus, I believe that Iran borrowed her pathologic love from the peoples of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley and not from the then insignificant Greeks. But whatever may be its origin, the corruption is now bred in the bone. It begins in boyhood and many Persians account for it by paternal severity. Youths arrived at puberty find none of the facilities with which Europe supplies fornication. Onanism[FN399] is to a certain extent discouraged by circumcision, and meddling with the ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton

... foeman's banners waving!" "God be with ye—children and wife!" Hark to the music—the trump and the fife, How they ring through the ranks which they rouse to the strife! Thrilling they sound with their glorious tone, Thrilling they go through the marrow and bone! Brothers, God grant when this life is o'er, In the life to come that we ...

— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller

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