the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Bone
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
(2):
(n.) Dice.
(3):
(v. t.) 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.
(4):
(n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(7):
(v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
(8):
(n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
(9):
(n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
(10):
(v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
(11):
(v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
(12):
(v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/bone.html. 1828.
