Usually means: Hard, structural component of vertebrates.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bone, bone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bone, bone: Wordnik
  7. bone: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bone, bone: Wiktionary
  9. bone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bone: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bone: Dictionary.com
  13. bone: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bone: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bone (color), Bone (comic), Bone (comics), Bone (corsetry), Bone (disambiguation), Bone (journal), Bone (surname), Bone: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bone: Rhymezone
  19. bone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bone: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Bone, Bone, Bone: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. bone: Free Dictionary
  23. bone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bone: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. bone: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bone: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bone (Human Anatomy), bone: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bone: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Bone(s): Merck Manuals
  4. Bone: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Bone: Anatomy of the Human Body
  7. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  10. Bone (Human Anatomy), bone: Medical dictionary
  11. Bone: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. BONE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. bone: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone, bone: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bone: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Bone: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Bone: A Seattle Lexicon

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See boned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
noun:  (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
noun:  A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
noun:  A bonefish.
noun:  One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
noun:  One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
noun:  Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
noun:  (figurative) The framework of anything.
noun:  An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
noun:  (US, informal, in the plural) A dollar.
noun:  (American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
noun:  (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
noun:  (slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or die.
noun:  (slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
noun:  (figurative) A reward.
adjective:  Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
verb:  To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
verb:  To fertilize with bone.
verb:  To put whalebone into.
verb:  (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
verb:  (vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
verb:  (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform “bone pointing”, a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
verb:  (usually with "up") To study.
verb:  To polish boots to a shiny finish.
verb:  To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
adverb:  Used before an adjective as an intensifier
verb:  (transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
verb:  (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, named after Orion Jost Bone.
noun:  (slang) Clipping of trombone. [A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).]

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