bone

  1. Adjective.  Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  2. Noun.  (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  3. Noun.  (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  4. Noun.  A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  5. Noun.  One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  6. Noun.  An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  7. Noun.  (US, informal) A dollar.
  8. Noun.  (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  9. Noun.  (slang) Dominoes or dice.
  10. Noun.  (slang) (form of, shortened form) .
  11. Verb.  To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  12. Verb.  To furnish with bone.
  13. Verb.  (context, civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
  14. Verb.  (vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
  15. Verb.  (Australia, dated) (context, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  16. Verb.  (context, usually with "up") To study.
  17. Verb.  To polish boots to a shiny finish.
  18. Verb.  (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

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