Bible Dictionaries
Bone

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Bone'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/bone.html. 1828.