Definitions for bones

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bones bone

Spelling: [bohn]

IPA: /boʊn/

Bones is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in bones (benos).

Definitions for bones

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.
10. a seaport in NE Algeria: site of Hippo Regius.

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:

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 bones

before 900; Middle English bo(o)n, Old English bān; cognate with Old Frisian, Old Saxon bēn, Dutch been bone, Old Norse bein bone, leg, German Bein leg (-bein bone, in compounds); Germanic *b

Examples for bones

They now state they are only horses' bones, and not men's, as first stated.

Sticks and stones may break my bones / but chains and whips excite me.

Instead of being strong and resilient, bones become weak and brittle.

My surgeon told me my bones were so soft he could barely install the screws.

Chiefly, we forgot the many, many problems there are with the bones—the book and score—to this show.

But even if the great conqueror lies elsewhere, the Kasta bones might well be those of his wife.

There's no good to mortal creature i' the bones or blood of her!

Strain the liquid from the veal and bones and remove the fat.

And now, through flesh and bones that vengeful weapon grinds!

It is a happy man who has divined the leisure of eternity, so he feels it, like what you say, 'in his bones.'