| • | The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. |
| • | One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body. |
| • | Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. |
| • | Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music. |
| • | 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. |
