<adj.all> a bony substance the bony framework of the body
Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n; 110), n. [OE. bon, ban, AS. b[=a]n; akin to Icel. bein, Sw. ben, Dan. & D. been, G. bein bone, leg; cf. Icel. beinn straight.] 1. (Anat.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify.
2. 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.
3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
4. pl. Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
5. pl. Dice.
6. Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
7. Fig.: The framework of anything.
{A bone of contention}, a subject of contention or dispute.
{A bone to pick}, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one).
{Bone ash}, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry.
{Bone black} (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; -- called also {animal charcoal}. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See {Ivory black}, under {Black}.
{Bone cave}, a cave in which are found bones of extinct or recent animals, mingled sometimes with the works and bones of man. --Am. Cyc.
{Bone dust}, ground or pulverized bones, used as a fertilizer.
{Bone earth} (Chem.), the earthy residuum after the calcination of bone, consisting chiefly of phosphate of calcium.
{Bone lace}, a lace made of linen thread, so called because woven with bobbins of bone.
{Bone oil}, an oil obtained by, heating bones (as in the manufacture of bone black), and remarkable for containing the nitrogenous bases, pyridine and quinoline, and their derivatives; -- also called {Dippel's oil}.
{Bone setter}. Same as {Bonesetter}. See in the Vocabulary.
{Bone shark} (Zo["o]l.), the basking shark.
{Bone spavin}. See under {Spavin}.
{Bone turquoise}, fossil bone or tooth of a delicate blue color, sometimes used as an imitation of true turquoise.
{Bone whale} (Zo["o]l.), a right whale.
{To be upon the bones of}, to attack. [Obs.]
{To make no bones}, to make no scruple; not to hesitate. [Low]
{To pick a bone with}, to quarrel with, as dogs quarrel over a bone; to settle a disagreement. [Colloq.]
Bone \Bone\ (b[=o]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Boned} (b[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Boning}.] 1. To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. ``To bone a turkey.'' --Soyer.
2. To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays. --Ash.
3. To fertilize with bone.
4. To steal; to take possession of. [Slang]
Bone \Bone\, v. t. [F. bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, fr. borgne one-eyed.] 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. --Knight.
Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. --M. Buchanan.
It was the older Knievel who made the jump famous and turned himself into a household name in the process when he crashed on landing and flipped like a rag doll through the parking lot and broke nearly ever bone in his body.
Scientists are trying to determine how to counter bone marrow depletion, which results from prolonged space flight.
It is designed to test the effects of zero gravity on bone healing in space.
Oregon lawmakers voted last summer to finance only cornea and kidney transplants, joining a minority of states that don't pay for transplant operations such as those of hearts, bone marrow and livers.
Osteoporosis, a disease caused by the leaching of calcium from bone, strikes 15 to 20 million adults.
He was chilled to the bone.
Guskova was quoted as saying 11 of 13 people who received bone marrow transplants died.
Today, bone marrow transplantation is considered the preferred treatment for some leukemia and lymphoma patients who otherwise would not survive.
'We can't get any closer to the bone,' Goldin says. Still, a lot of fat needed to be cut.
The computerized bone reconstruction is faster than microscopic analysis, yields more details and lets researchers examine inner bone structure without having to slice up the specimen, he said.
The computerized bone reconstruction is faster than microscopic analysis, yields more details and lets researchers examine inner bone structure without having to slice up the specimen, he said.
At the same time, a bone of contention was disappearing with Libya at the same time.
The missing whale got its name because skin on its snout had been rubbed down to the bone by the rough ice surrounding a breathing hole that kept the mammals alive.
The Michigan study also found no relationship between cigarette smoking, alcohol or the use of anti-hypertensive drugs and the amount of bone loss.
And domestic spending will have to be slashed to the bone to comply with the recent budget agreement, to finance military operations in the gulf and to account for lower revenues from business because of the recession.
This is quite close to the bone. Of course, he gets into trouble.
And unlike the T-lymphocyte, the virus does not kill the bone marrow cell, but reproduces within the cell.
The test performed on Ms. Follini is the same one used to gauge osteoporosis, the loss of bone mass in the elderly.
Doctors removed bone slivers from her left hip to replace the discs.
He was hospitalized Feb. 23 for treatment of bone cancer, which he had battled privately for at least three years.
The women had been buried with gold and silver jewelry, bronze and bone artifacts, containers of wine with small cups inside and cylindrical ivory cosmetic boxes.
The patient's destroyed bone marrow and blood system could then be reconstituted by injections of a few of the patient's own stem cells that had been extracted earlier and stored.
"The first 250 million hits the bone and will cause real pain," Dukakis said. "The balance hits raw nerve and will be devastating to people, to families and to communities.
The titanium, Nobelpharma says, forms a permanent, biological bond with living bone tissue.
Yessan features cassowary bone daggers and, sometimes, daggers carved from human bone.
Yessan features cassowary bone daggers and, sometimes, daggers carved from human bone.
Because the membrane sheath around each bone is left intact when the bones are broken with a small chisel and hammer, new bone grows in the proper place to fill the gap, Rimoin said.
Because the membrane sheath around each bone is left intact when the bones are broken with a small chisel and hammer, new bone grows in the proper place to fill the gap, Rimoin said.
Gramly has a state permit to excavate the 11,200-year-old site, which has yielded stone and bone tools made in the style attributed to the so-called Clovis people.
He wrote that DES causes a "signature" disease, while lead paint causes health problems, such as brain and bone damage, that might have had numerous other causes.