bone

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
4. A bonefish
5. One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
6. One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
7. Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
8. The framework of anything.
9. An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
10. A dollar.
11. The wishbone formation.
12. An erect penis; a boner.
13. (chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

1. To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
2. To fertilize with bone.
3. To put whalebone into.

   to bone stays

4. To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

   boning rod

5. (usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
6. (in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
7. (usually with "up") To study.

   bone up

8. To polish boots to a shiny finish.

adjective

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

verb

To apprehend, steal.

verb

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

1. 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♭).

   Jim plays the trombone very well.

2. The common European bittern.