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Definition bone

Etymology 1

From Middle English bon, from Old English b?n (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bain? (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?eyh?- (“to hit, strike, beat”).

Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bien (“bone”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfin?s (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan ??????‎ (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.

Noun

bone (countable and uncountable, plural bones)

1. (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. A bonefish
5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. (figuratively) The framework of anything.
9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
10. (US, informal) A dollar.
11. (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
12. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
13. (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

Adjective

bone (not comparable)

1. Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.
4. (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
5. (vulgar, slang, usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
6. (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. (usually with "up") To study.
8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

Etymology 2

Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

Verb

bone (third-person singular simple present bones, present participle boning, simple past and past participle boned)

1. (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Etymology 4

Clipping of trombone

Noun

bone (plural bones)

1. (slang) Clipping of trombone.

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