•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.•Dice.•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.

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