Word Meaning

Meaning of 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.

Crossword clue for bone

- B2’s sidekick is off-white
- Body part
- Cartilage
- Dog’s treat
- Femur, e.g.
- Part of skeleton
- Piece of a skeleton
- Skeleton part