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a shade of white the color of bleached bones

rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

a shade of white the color of bleached bones

remove the bones from (an animal)

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

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.

Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

Fig.: The framework of anything.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

To fertilize with bone.

To steal; to take possession of.

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.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

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.

Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.

Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.

Fig.: The framework of anything.

To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.

To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.

To fertilize with bone.

To steal; to take possession of.

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.

A specialized CONNECTIVE TISSUE that is the main constituent of the SKELETON. The principle cellular component of bone is comprised of OSTEOBLASTS, OSTEOCYTES and OSTEOCLASTS, while FIBRILLAR COLLAGENS and hydoxyapatite crystals form the BONE MATRIX.

The hardened tissue forming the skeleton of the higher orders of animals; one of the parts or pieces of an animal skeleton; a stay of whalebone, steel, etc., for a corset.

To remove the bones from; to stiffen with whalebone, as a dress.

1. A hard animal tissue consisting of an organic matrix of fibers of collagen impregnated with mineral matter, chiefly calcium phosphate and carbonate; the animal matter, or organic matrix, comprises about 33 per cent., the inorganic or mineral matter about 67 per cent., by weight of bone. 2. A portion of bone tissue of definite shape and size, forming a part of the animal skeleton; in man there are 200 distinct bones in the skeleton, not including the ossicles of the tympanum or the sesamoid bones other than the two patellae. A bone consists of an outer layer of dense compact tissue, covered by the periosteum, and an inner loose, spongy tissue; the central portion of a long bone is filled with marrow. (For the several bones of the body see os, or the qualifying word.).

To take the bones out of, as meat.

The hard substance forming the skeleton.

To take out bones from the flesh.

To remove the bones from.

To stiffen with whalebone.

To fertilise with bone - dust.

The skeleton of a vertebrate animal, or any portion of it.

The mortal remains.

Something made of bone or the like.

Made of bone.

Pieces of bone held between the fingers and rattled together in time to a tune.

A firm hard substance, composing the skeleton of an animal body; a piece of the skeleton.

To take out the bones; to put bones in. To make no bones, to make no scruple. To have a bone to pick, to have something disagreeable to settle. Body and bones, altogether.

Made of bone.

The firm hard substance that composes the framework or skeleton of vertebrate animals; any part of the skeleton.

To stiffen with whalebone; to take out bones.

Connective tissue in which the ground substance is impregnated with salts of lime.

The bones are the solid and hard parts, which form the basis of the bodies of animals of the superior classes; and the union of which constitutes the skeleton. The human body has, at the adult age, 208 bones, without including the 32 teeth, the ossa Wormiana, and the sesamoid bones. Anatomists divide them, from their shape, into 1. Long bones, which form part of the limbs, and represent columns for supporting the weight of the body, or levers of different kinds for the muscles to act upon. 2. Flat bones, which form the parietes of splanchnic cavities; and, 3. Short bones, met with in parts of the body where solidity and some mobility are necessary. Bones are formed of two different textures; spongy and compact. They afford, on analysis, much phosphate and carbonate of lime, a little phosphate of magnesia, phosphate of ammonia, oxides of iron and manganese, some traces of alumina and silica, gelatin, fat, and water. The uses of the bones are mentioned under each bone. They give shape to the body, contain and defend the viscera, and act as levers to the muscles. The bones of the ox, Bos Taurus, are employed in pharmacy.

The material of the skeleton of most vertebrate animals. (For varieties of bones, see the adjectives.)

The general name for the distinct parts which unitedly make up the skeleton of the body. The matrix or substance consists of an organized mass of fibers of collagen, impregnated with mineral matter, chiefly calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate

n. [Anglo-Saxon] A firm, hard, whitish substance, composing the skeleton in the higher orders of animals;—an integral portion of the skeleton;—any thing made of bone, as castanets.

The solid parts of the body of an animal; a fragment of meat, a bone with as much flesh as adheres to it; To make no bones, to make no scruple; dice.