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