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.