Definitions for boned

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Spelling: [bohnd]

IPA: /boʊnd/

Boned is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 68 anagrams from letters in boned (bdeno).

Definitions for boned

noun

1. Anatomy, Zoology. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen-rich organic matrix impregnated with calcium, phosphate, and other minerals.
2. such a structure from an edible animal, usually with meat adhering to it, as an article of food:
3. any of various similarly hard or structural animal substances, as ivory or whalebone.
4. something made of or resembling such a substance.
5. a small concession, intended to pacify or quiet; a conciliatory bribe or gift:
6. bones. the skeleton. a body: Games Slang. dice. (initial capital letter) Mr. Bones. a simple rhythm instrument consisting of two sometimes curved bars or short strips of bone, ivory, wood, or the like, held between the fingers of one hand and clacked together.
7. the color of bone; ivory or off-white.
8. a flat strip of whalebone or other material for stiffening corsets, petticoats, etc.; stay.
9. Games Slang. a domino.

Idioms

1. bone up, Informal. to study intensely; cram:
2. feel in one's bones, to think or feel intuitively:
3. have a bone to pick with someone, to have cause to disagree or argue with someone:
4. make no bones about, to deal with in a direct manner; act or speak openly: to have no fear of or objection to.
5. to the bone, to the essentials; to the minimum: to an extreme degree; thoroughly:

adverb

1. completely; absolutely:

adjective

1. having a particular kind of bone or bony structure (used in combination):
2. having the bones taken out; cooked or served with the bones removed:
3. braced or supported with stays, as a corset.
4. fertilized with bone:

verb (used with object)

1. to remove the bones from:
2. to put whalebone or another stiffener into (clothing).
3. Agriculture. to put bone meal into (feed, fertilizer, etc.).

Origin of boned

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at bone, -ed³

Examples for boned

An unhallowed fiend had cut off the sequel with scissors and boned it!

Lulu also uses tapenade to stuff a boned leg of lamb and to accompany grilled fish and roasts.

Breast of veal may be boned, and stuffed with veal stuffing and cooked in the same way.

And so we were off again, discussing cutting style, Christmas dinner, and boned versus unboned hams.

Oh, if you have boned it to read, I say no more; the crime will punish itself.

Billy stepped up to him and boned him for the price of a square meal.

A number of our most prominent men have boned me to run for sheriff.

The brown ginghams were made in the same way, except that the waists were not boned.

To roast a small hen turkey or a pullet with batter, the bird must first be boned, and filled with forcemeat or stuffing.

A loin of pork with the fat and kidney taken out and boned, and a forehand of pork boned, are very nice dressed in the same way.