bone

Meaning

Noun

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. 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 One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.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. The framework of anything.
9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
10. (informal) A dollar.
11. (informal) The wishbone formation.
12. (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
13. (slang) A domino or die.
14. (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
15. A reward.

Adj

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

Verb

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.
4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
5. (slang) To have sexual intercourse (with).
6. To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. To study.
8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.
9. To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.

Verb

To apprehend, steal.

Verb

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

Concepts

bone

skeleton

debone

bony

bone up

cram

get up

grind away

mug up

swot up

os

fishbone

seed

ivory

off-white

pearl

osseous

drum

swot

osseous tissue

screw

backbone

bonk

fuck

nail

root

bones

mug

study

thin

skinny

shoehorn

mastoid

long bone

hip

collarbone

cheekbone

pit

boned

boney

osteal

drill

enter

plow

plug

poke

stuff

tap

leg bone

shell

hard seed

domino

domino piece

mesenchyme

skull

relic

kernel

stupid

Alawa

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bəʊn/

Etymology

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“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 perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (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.