Word Finder - bone

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A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

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Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

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A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

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A bonefish

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One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

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One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.

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

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The framework of anything.

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An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

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A dollar.

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The wishbone formation.

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An erect penis; a boner.

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(chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.

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To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

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To fertilize with bone.

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To put whalebone into.

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to bone stays

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

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boning rod

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(usually of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

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(in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

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(usually with "up") To study.

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bone up

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To polish boots to a shiny finish.

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

He dropped the small bone in his pocket.

You have the most beautiful bone structure.

The car abruptly halted its progress, slinging Lisa against the steering wheel with bone jarring force.

The bone means something to us.

If you don't remember where you buried the bone, it isn't going to be much help when you get hungry later.

Skull elevated and compressed; with the orbit and temporal fossa widely continuous, there being no true post-orbital process from the frontal bone.

Hind extremities proportionally longer with inner toe represented only by a small metatarsal bone.

The vessels contained a dark dust, apparently disintegrated ashes, small pieces of bone, and a number of small pieces of jewelry in gold, silver, white and red cornelian, amethyst, topaz, garnet, coral and crystal.

The downside was someone always managed to hit Jackson with a bullet or two or drive a knife into him, and break the tip off in a bone.

While the use of the bow and arrow does not seem to have occurred to them, the spear and axe are in general use, commonly made of hard-wood; the hatchets of stone, and the javelins pointed' with stone or bone.

By the seizure and sale of Church lands, by th sale of state railways, by economy to the bone and on onc supreme occasion by an appeal to taxpayers to advance a years quota of the land-tax, he had met the most pressing engagements of that troublous period.

Thus various parts of criminals, such as the thigh bone of a hanged man, moss grown on a human skull, &c., were used, and even the celebrated Dr Culpeper in the 17th century recommended " the ashes of the head of a coal black cat as a specific for such as have a skin growing over their sight."

Although quite thin, the Ludlow Bone Bed can be followed from that town into Gloucestershire for a distance of 45 m.

The multiplication of thongs for purposes of flogging is found in the old Roman flagellum, a scourge, which had sometimes three thongs with bone or bronze knots fastened to them.

Here the opisthotic bone appears in the occipital region, as in the adult Chelonian.

The quadrate is invariably a conspicuous bone and movably articulating with the cranium and by a special process with the pterygoid.

The condyles of the tibia are in reality not parts of this bone, but are the three proximal tarsalia which fuse together and with the distal end of the tibia.

The three middle metatarsals become fused together into a cannon bone; the upper part of the third middle metatarsal projects behind and forms the so-called hypotarsus, which in various ways, characteristic of the different groups of birds (with one or more sulci, grooved or perforated), acts as guiding pulley to the tendons of the flexor muscles of the toes.

It is no exaggeration to say that the genus, often even the species, can be determined from almost any recent bone, but in the case of Miocene, and still more, of Eocene fossils, we have often to deal with strange families, which either represent an extinct side branch, or which connect several recent groups with each other.

In the first two volumes fossil birds, occasionally based upon a fragmentary bone only, are also included.

This word also appears in the English form "fish," in the metal, pearl or bone counters, sometimes made in the form of fish, used for scoring points, &c., in many games.

One of the best-known of these is the Ludlow Bone Bed, which is found at the base of the Downton Sandstone in the Upper Ludlow series.

Another well-known bed, formerly known as the "Bristol" or "Lias" Bone Bed, exists in the form of several thin layers of micaceous sandstone, with the remains of fish and saurians, which occur in the Rhaetic Black Paper Shales that lie above the Keuper marls in the south-west of England.

It is noteworthy that a similar bone bed has been traced on the same geological horizon in Brunswick, Hanover and Franconia.

A bone bed has also been observed at the base of the Carboniferous limestone series in certain parts of the south-west of England.

The chief industries of Grimsby are shipbuilding, brewing, tanning, manufactures of ship tackle, ropes, ice for preserving fish, turnery, flour, linseed cake, artificial manure; and there are saw mills, bone and corn mills, and creosote works.

Since Blith's time bone was the one new fertilizer that had come into use.

They all grow slowly, and it is not until the animal is about six months old that they are united into one firm bone.

The points at issue between Cuvier and Etienne Geoffroy St-Hilaire before mentioned naturally attracted the attention of L'Herminier, who in 1836 presented to the French Academy the results of his researches into the mode Isidore of growth of that bone which in the adult bird he had already studied to such good purpose.

These laws, he added, exist in regard to all parts that offer characters fit for the methodical arrangement of birds, but it is in regard to the anterior palatal bone that they unquestionably offer the most evidence.

At the same time he states that authors who have occupied themselves with the sternum alone have often produced uncertain results, especially when they have neglected its anterior for its posterior part; for in truth every bone of the skeleton ought to be studied in all its details.

Important as are the characters afforded by the sternum, that bone even with the whole sternal apparatus should obviously not be.

The cheaper mottled and brown soaps have for their basis bone fat, obtained by treating bones with superheated steam or other methods.

Of the vegetable oils, in addition to cotton-seed and coco-nut, olive oil is the basis of soaps for calico printers and silk dyers; castor oil yields transparent soaps (under suitable treatment), whilst crude palm oil, with bone fat, is employed for making brown soap, and after bleaching it yields ordinary pale or mottled.

Most of these are perforated for mounting on threads or wires, and had been, no doubt, originally connected together to form one or more of the elaborate girdles, necklaces and breast ornaments then worn by the women.3 On the bottom of the stone box there was similar dust, pieces of bone and jewelry, and also remains of what had been vessels of wood.

The total quantity of scraps of bone may have amounted to a wineglassful.

His vanity made him order the surgeons to cut out a bone which protruded below the knee and spoilt the symmetry of his leg.

In the adult of both sexes there are only two teeth, both in the upper jaw, which lie horizontally side by side, and in the female remain throughout life concealed in cavities of the bone.

The projecting bone or bump at the back of the head.

The astragalus has a pulley-like surface above for articulation into the tibia, but its lower surface is flattened and unites to a much greater extent with the navicular than with the cuboid, which bone is of comparatively less importance than in the Artiodactyles.

Orbit in higher forms closed by bone; and ridges of lower cheek-teeth terminating in large loops.

It shall be eaten in haste; none of the flesh shall be carried forth, neither shall a bone be broken.

The Passover was kept in the first month on the 14th day of the month at even in the wilderness of Sinai; but certain men, unclean by touching a dead body, asked what they should do; they were to keep it on the second month on the 14th day, eating it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, leaving none of it until the morning, nor breaking a bone.

The paschal lamb is no longer eaten but represented by the shank bone of a lamb roasted in the ashes; unleavened bread and bitter herbs (haroseth) are eaten; four cups of wine are drunk before and after the repast, and a certain number of Psalms are recited.

From the girdle hung the single-edged missile axe or francisca, the scramasax or short knife, a poniard and such articles of toilet as scissors, a comb (of wood or bone), &c. The Franks also used a weapon called the framea (an iron lance set firmly in a wooden shaft), and bows and arrows.

Another character is the absence of a hollow chamber, or sinus, within the frontal bone of the forehead.

It is largely to researches on the bone marrow that we owe our present knowledge of the origin and the classification of the different cellular elements of the blood, both erythrocytes or red corpuscles, and the series of granular leucocytes or white corpuscles.

Whatever be the ancestral cell from which these cells spring, it is in the bone marrow that we find a differentiation into the various marrow cells from which are developed the mature corpuscles that pass from the marrow into the blood circulation.

The healthy bone marrow reacts with remarkable rapidity to the demand for more blood cells which may be required by the organism; its reactions and variations in disease are very striking.

The cytology of bone marrow, with the technique of blood examination, is of great assistance in the diagnosis of different pathological conditions.