bone

/bəʉn//bɐʉn//bəʊn//ˈboʊn/

noun

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One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.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

1
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.

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