bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊn/
enpr: bōn
ipa: /boʊn/
ipa: /bəʉn/
ipa: /bɐʉn/
rhymes: -əʊn
Forms: form: bones
form: bane
form: byen
Etymology: From Middle English bon, from Old English bān (“bone, tusk; the bone of a limb”), from Proto-Germanic *bainą (“bone”), from *bainaz (“straight”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (“to hit, strike, beat”).
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain (“bone”), North Frisian bian, Biin, biinj (“bone; leg”), West Frisian bien (“bone”), Dutch been (“bone; leg”), German Low German Been, Bein (“bone”), German Bein (“leg”), German Gebein (“bones”), Swedish ben (“bone; leg”), Norwegian and Icelandic bein (“bone”), Breton benañ (“to cut, hew”), Latin perfinēs (“break through, break into pieces, shatter”), Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈 (byente, “they fight, hit”). Related also to Old Norse beinn (“straight, right, favourable, advantageous, convenient, friendly, fair, keen”) (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn (“direct, prompt”), Scots bein, bien (“in good condition, pleasant, well-to-do, cosy, well-stocked, pleasant, keen”)), Icelandic beinn (“straight, direct, hospitable”), Norwegian bein (“straight, direct, easy to deal with”). See bain, bein.
Senses: examples: text: Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.
ref: a1420, The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, “Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone”, in Robert von Fleischhacker, editor, Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie.", London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, translation of original by Lanfranc of Milan, published 1894, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
examples: text: No Trophee, Sword, nor Hatchment o're his bones.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], page 275, column 1:
glosses: Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of this material.
glosses: A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
examples: text: The reason I rarely fish for Mag Bay bones with a 5-weight or 6-weight is the number of fish that can turn light stuff inside out.
ref: 2019, Scott Sadil, “Tres Bocas”, in California Fly Fisher:
glosses: A bonefish.
glosses: One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
glosses: One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
glosses: Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
glosses: The framework of anything.
glosses: An off-white colour, like the typical colour of bone.
glosses: A dollar.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The wishbone formation.
examples: text: Speakin' on the phone, for hours on end / On the bone from just listenin', and then:
ref: 2003, “Let Me Watch”, in Vaudeville Villain, performed by Viktor Vaughn ft. Apani B. Fly:
glosses: An erect penis; a boner.
examples: text: Let's head to the casino and roll them bones!
text: The Accountant had brought out already a box of dominoes, and was toying architecturally with the bones.
ref: 1899 (please specify the page), Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part:
glosses: A domino or die.
examples: text: In between sets I took her outside, sat against a fence near the dumpster, and smoked a bone with her.
ref: 2006, Sean Conway, Gillis Huckabee, page 140:
glosses: A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
examples: text: When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone in
ref: 1979, Pink Floyd, Nobody Home:
glosses: A reward.
Synonyms: topics: medicine
sciences
word: os
sense: rigid parts of a corset
word: rib
sense: rigid parts of a corset
word: stay
sense: reward
word: doggy treat
Hypernyms: skeleton
Hyponyms: aitchbone
alveolar bone
armbone
auditory bone
backbone
barebone
breastbone
calf bone
cannon bone
capitate bone
carpal bone
cheekbone
chevron bone
coffin bone
collarbone
cramp bone
crazy bone
cuboid bone
cuneiform bone
cuttlebone
cuttlefish bone
dentary bone
dermal bone
dog bone
dragonbone
dry bone
earbone
elbow bone
epipubic bone
ethmoidal bone
ethmoid bone
exercise bone
featherbone
fingerbone
fishbone
footbone
forearm bone
frontal bone
funny bone
hamate bone
haunch bone
heel bone
herringbone
hip bone
huckle bone
hyoid bone
incisive bone
inferior turbinate bone
innominate bone
intermediate cuneiform bone
jawbone
keep the bones green
knucklebone
lacrimal bone
lateral cuneiform bone
legbone
lingual bone
long bone
lunate bone
malar bone
marrowbone
marsupial bone
mastoid bone
medial cuneiform bone
membrane bone
metacarpal bone
nasal bone
navicular bone
neckbone
occipital bone
oracle bone
otic bone
palatine bone
parietal bone
penile bone
penis bone
pin bone
pisiform bone
pizza bone
plate bone
pneumatic bone
point the bone
pubic bone
pull bone
pulley bone
quadrate bone
ridgebone
roofing bone
rostral bone
scaphoid bone
semilunar bone
sesamoid bone
shinbone
shoulder bone
sit bone
skullbone
soup bone
sphenoid bone
splenial bone
splint bone
squamosal bone
stirrup bone
tailbone
tarsal bone
temporal bone
tongue bone
trapezium bone
trapezoid bone
triquetral bone
turbinate bone
vomer bone
wishbone
Wormian bone
wristbone
Y bone
yellow bone
zygomatic bone
Derived terms: aitch-bone
all skin and bones
anklebone
arm bone
back-bone
bad to the bone
bag of bones
bare-bones
bladebone
boneache
bone age
bone apple tea
bone-ash
bone ash
bonebed
bone black
boneblack
bone-cage
bone cancer
bone char
bone-chilling
bone china
Bone Creek
bone-cruncher
bone-crunching
bone-crushing dog
boned
bone-deep
bone density
bonedigger
bonedog
bonedome
bone dry
bone-dry
bone earth
bone-eating snot flower worm
bone fire
bone-fire
bonefish
bone folder
bone graft
bone-grubber
bone-hard
bone hard
bonehead
bone head
boneheaded
boneheadedly
boneheadedness
bonehouse
bone-house wasp
bone idle
bone-idle
bone-in
bone in her teeth
bone in one's body
bone in the throat
bonejarring
bone lace
boneless
bonelessness
bonelet
bonelike
bone loss
bone marrow
bone mass
bone-meal
bone meal
bone mineral density
bone morphogenetic protein
bone-mouth
bone of contention
bone oil
bone-on
bone-picker
bone pointing
boner
bone scan
boneseed
boneseeker
bone-seeker
bone seeker
boneset
bonesetter
bonesetting
bone-shaker
boneshaker
bone-shaking
boneshaking
bone-shakingly
Bonesman
bone smashing
bone spavin
bonespo
bone spur
bone-straight
bone structure
bone tired
bone-tired
bone tissue
bone to pick
bone turquoise
bone up
boneware
Bone Wars
bone wax
bonework
boneyard
bony
breakbone
break-bones
breast bone
bred-in-the-bone
breed in the bone
brittle bone disease
browbone
canon bone
cavalry bone
chavel-bone
cheek bone
cheek-bone
chew the meat and spit out the bones
chickenboner
chill to the bone
chinbone
close to the bone
collar-bone
collar bone
cross-bone
cross-bones
crossbones
cuboidal bone
cut to the bone
devil's bones
dog and bone
dogbone
dog bone spanner
dog bone wrench
dry as a bone
falling off the bone
flesh and bone
flesh and bones
flesh on the bones
folding-bone
folding bone
glass bone disease
God's bones
good-luck bone
greenbone
hambone
haunch-bone
have a bone in one's leg
have a bone to pick
H bone
heelbone
herring-bone
holy bone
in one's bones
intrabone
Ishango bone
jaw bone
jaw-bone
jump on someone's bones
jump someone's bones
keep one's bone green
knitbone
lachrymal bone
lazy bones
like a bulldog with a bone
like a dog with a bone
Longbone
lucky-bone
make no bones about
make old bones
make one's bones
meat on the bones
membrane-bone
Murphy-Lane bone skid
Napier's bones
natch-bone
near the bone
no bones about it
nonbone
oracle bone script
Paget's disease of bone
pare to the bone
pedal bone
phantom bone disease
ploughshare bone
prone-bone
radial bone
rag and bone man
rag-and-bone man
rag-and-bone shop
rag and bone shop
rattle the bones
raven's bone
raw-head and bloody-bones
redbone
rickle of bones
rider's bone
ridge-bone
ringbone
ring-bone
romancing the bone
ruel-bone
sawbones
shackle-bone
shankbone
shank-bone
sharebone
sidebone
skin and bone
skin and bones
skull and bones
Smallbone
soaked to the bone
soaked to the bones
spadebone
speal-bone
splinter bone
spoke-bone
St. Hugh's bones
sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
tail bone
tau bone
t-bone
T-bone steak
telling bone
thighbone
throw a bone to
throw someone a bone
tickle someone's funny bone
Tilly bone
to one's bone
to one's bones
toss a bone to
toss someone a bone
to the bone
to the bones
triquetrum bone
twitter-bone
tympanic bone
underbone
what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh
whirl-bone
wishing bone
with every bone in one's body
work oneself to the bone
work one's fingers to the bone