English English Dictionary

Dice.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

Fig.: The framework of anything.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

To fertilize with bone.

To steal; to take possession of.

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.

Pain in the bones.

See Bone black, under Bone, n.

of Bone

Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned.

Deprived of bones; as, boned turkey or codfish.

Manured with bone; as, boned land.

The spiny dogfish.

See Ladyfish.

Without bones.

A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort (Eupatorium perfoliatum). Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.

Sciatica.