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   bone

   /bəʊn/

   noun

   • 1. any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates: "his injuries included many broken bones"
   • ▪ one's body: "he hauled his tired bones upright"
   • ▪ a corpse or skeleton: "the discovery of the bones of Richard III"
   • ▪ a bone of an animal with meat on it fed to a dog: "dogs yelping over a bone"
   • 2. the calcified material of which bones consist: "an earring of bone"
   • ▪ a substance similar to bone, such as ivory or whalebone.
   • ▪ a thing made or formerly made of bone, such as a strip of stiffening for a foundation garment.
   • ▪ (in southern Africa) one of a set of carved dice or bones used by traditional healers in divination.
   • 3. the basic or essential framework of something: "you need to put some flesh on the bones of your idea"

   verb

   • 1. remove the bones from (meat or fish) before cooking, serving, or selling: "ask your butcher to bone the turkey for you"
   • 2. study (a subject) intensively, typically in preparation for something: informal "she boned up on languages she had learned long ago"
   • 3. have sex with (someone). vulgar slang US

   Word Origin Old Englishbān, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch been and German Bein.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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