aitchbone | (noun) a cut of beef including the H-shaped rump bone | - |
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anklebone | (noun) the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint | Synonyms: astragal, astragalus, talus |
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backbone | (noun) the part of a network that connects other networks together | - |
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(noun) the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved | Synonyms: spine |
(noun) fortitude and determination | Synonyms: grit, gumption, guts, moxie, sand |
(noun) the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord | Synonyms: back, rachis, spinal column, spine, vertebral column |
(noun) a central cohesive source of support and stability | Synonyms: anchor, keystone, linchpin, lynchpin, mainstay |
bone | (adjective) consisting of or made up of bone | - |
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(noun) a shade of white the color of bleached bones | Synonyms: ivory, off-white, pearl |
(noun) rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates | Synonyms: os |
(noun) the porous calcified substance from which bones are made | Synonyms: osseous tissue |
(verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: debone |
(verb) study intensively, as before an exam | Synonyms: bone up, cram, drum, get up, grind away, mug up, swot, swot up |
boned | (adjective) having bones as specified | - |
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(adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: deboned |
bonefish | (noun) slender silvery marine fish found in tropical mud flats and mangrove lagoons | Synonyms: Albula vulpes |
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bonehead | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, dumbass, dunce, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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boneheaded | (adjective) (used informally) stupid | Synonyms: blockheaded, duncical, duncish, fatheaded, loggerheaded, thick-skulled, thick, thickheaded, wooden-headed |
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boneless | (adjective) being without a bone or bones | - |
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bonelet | (noun) a small bone; especially one in the middle ear | Synonyms: ossicle, ossiculum |
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bonelike | (adjective) resembling bone | - |
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bonemeal | (noun) fertilizer made of ground bones | - |
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boner | (noun) an embarrassing mistake | Synonyms: bloomer, blooper, blunder, boo-boo, botch, bungle, flub, foul-up, fuckup, pratfall |
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bones | (noun) (used in the plural) a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance | Synonyms: castanets, clappers, finger cymbals |
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boneset | (noun) perennial herb of southeastern United States having white-rayed flower heads; formerly used as in folk medicine | Synonyms: agueweed, Eupatorium perfoliatum, thoroughwort |
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(noun) European herb having small white, pink or purple flowers; naturalized as a weed in North America | Synonyms: common comfrey, Symphytum officinale |
bonesetter | (noun) someone (not necessarily a licensed physician) who sets broken bones | - |
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boneshaker | (noun) any wheeled vehicle that is dilapidated and uncomfortable | - |
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boney | (adjective) having bones especially many or prominent bones | Synonyms: bony |
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(adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy |
breastbone | (noun) the flat bone that articulates with the clavicles and the first seven pairs of ribs | Synonyms: sternum |
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cheekbone | (noun) the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek | Synonyms: jugal bone, malar, malar bone, os zygomaticum, zygomatic, zygomatic bone |
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collarbone | (noun) bone linking the scapula and sternum | Synonyms: clavicle |
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crossbones | (noun) two crossed bones (or a representation of two crossed bones) used as a symbol danger or death | - |
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debone | (verb) remove the bones from | Synonyms: bone |
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deboned | (adjective) having had the bones removed | Synonyms: boned |
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fishbone | (noun) a bone of a fish | - |
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heelbone | (noun) the largest tarsal bone; forms the human heel | Synonyms: calcaneus, os tarsi fibulare |
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herringbone | (noun) a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern | - |
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(noun) a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery | Synonyms: herringbone pattern |
hipbone | (noun) large flaring bone forming one half of the pelvis; made up of the ilium and ischium and pubis | Synonyms: innominate bone |
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jawbone | (noun) the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth | Synonyms: jowl, lower jaw, lower jawbone, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla |
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(verb) talk idly or casually and in a friendly way | Synonyms: schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze |
knucklebones | (noun) a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball | Synonyms: jacks, jackstones |
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lazybones | (noun) a lazy person | - |
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marrowbone | (noun) a bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup | - |
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rawboned | (adjective) having a lean and bony physique | - |
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redbone | (noun) a speedy red or red-and-tan American hound | - |
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sawbones | (noun) a physician who specializes in surgery | Synonyms: operating surgeon, surgeon |
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shinbone | (noun) the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle | Synonyms: shin, shin bone, tibia |
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thighbone | (noun) the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee | Synonyms: femoris, femur |
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trombone | (noun) a brass instrument consisting of a long tube whose length can be varied by a U-shaped slide | - |
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whalebone | (noun) a horny material from the upper jaws of certain whales; used as the ribs of fans or as stays in corsets | Synonyms: baleen |
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wishbone | (noun) the furcula of a domestic fowl | Synonyms: wishing bone |
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