bone
- Adjective. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- Noun. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
- Noun. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
- Noun. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
- Noun. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
- Noun. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
- Noun. (US, informal) A dollar.
- Noun. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
- Noun. (slang) Dominoes or dice.
- Noun. (slang) (form of, shortened form) .
- Verb. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
- Verb. To furnish with bone.
- Verb. (context, civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
- Verb. (vulgar, slang) To have sexual intercourse with.
- 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.
- Verb. (context, usually with "up") To study.
- Verb. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
- Verb. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
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