bone 
nure for dry Bolls, with the very best effect, Itelng ground 
to dual, bruised, or broken Into small fragments in mills, 
or dissolved in sulphuric aeiil. I h. ^rcat utility of iwnes 
as a manure arises from the phosphaU- of linn- they sup 
ply to thf soil. 
3. ]>l. The bones of the body taken collectively; 
the skeleton ; In-nee, tin- lioilily frame; a body. 
Night hangs upon mini' eyes: my lumen would rest 
That hair but lulxuiril to attain this hour. 
Slink.. .1. ('., V. 6. 
4. pi. Mortal remains : the skeleton or bony 
structure being the moHt permanent part of a 
dead body. 
And Moses took the hum-* of Joseph with him : for he 
hail Htraitly sworn thr rhiMrrn of Israel, saying, God will 
surely visit you ; and ye shall carry up my bones away 
hence with you. Ex. xlll. 10. 
5. The internal shell of cuttlefishes of the fam- 
ily ScpiidtF, having the consistency of bone. 
Generally called cuttle-bone or cuttlefish-bone. 
6. Something made of bone, or of a substance 
resembling bone, as ivory, -whalebone, etc. 
(n) pi. Dice. [Slang or colloq.J 
He felt a little odd when he first rattled the bones. 
Disraeli, Young Duke, it. 6. 
Ib) pi. A name formerly given to the bobbins used in mak- 
ing lace, became made of bone. 
The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, 
And the free maids, that weave their thread with buitf.ii. 
Shak., T. N., U. 4. 
(c) pi. Pieces of bone, ivory, or wood, used in pairs, held 
between the fingers, and rattled together to produce a 
kind of music, or to keep time to music. 
I have a reasonable good ear in music ; let us have the 
tongs and the bone*. Slink., M. N. D., iv. 1. 
Peter rolling about in the chair like a serenader play- 
ing the bones. Mayhcw. 
(>0 A strip of whalebone used to stiffen stays, etc. 
7. pi. A person who performs with the bones. 
There were five of them Pell was bmte*. Muiiln '". 
8f. Half of the stake in the game of bone-ace 
(which see). 9. In coal-mining, slaty or clayey 
portions or partings in coal A bone to pick, 
something to occupy one ; a difficulty, dispute, etc., to 
solve or settle ; a cause of contention. Angular bone. 
.See a ni/ular. Articular bone. Same as articulare. 
Bag of bones. See ba//i. Bone of contention, a sub- 
ject of dispute or rivalry : probably from the manner in 
which dogs quarrel over a bone. 
While any flesh remains on a bone, it continues a bone 
of contention. Brooke, Fool of Quality, I. 249. 
Sardinia was one of the chief bouts of contention between 
Genoa and Pisa. Brougham. 
Bone porcelain, a name given t o II in' pottery In the com- 
position of which bone-dust has been used. Bones Of 
Berlin, in nn.it.. two small, triangular, turbinatcd bones, 
often found beneath the small opening of the sphenoidal 
sinus ; the sphenoida! spongy bones, or sphenoturbinals. 
Canaliculi of bone. See canaliculu*. Coracold, 
coronary, cotyloid, cranial bone. See the adjectives. 
Crazy bone, same as funnii-banf. Cuneiform, cy- 
lindrical, etc., bone. See the adjectives. Earth of 
bone. See earth. Epactal bone, in anal., the Wormian 
bone at the superior angle of the occipital }>one. Eth- 
moid bone. See ethmoid. Funny bone. 8ee/Hmj.v- 
bonc. Hyoid bone. Same as hyuid, n. Hyomandibu- 
lar, marsupial, etc., bone. See the adjectives.- Na- 
VlCUlar, occipital, etc., bone. See the adjectives. The 
ten bones, the ten Angers. 
By these ten bone*, my lords, he did speak them to me 
in the garret one ni^ht. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 8. 
To be upon the bones of, to attack. [Rare and vulgar.) 
Puaa had a month's mind to be upon the bone* of him, 
but was not willing to pick a quarrel. Sir R. L'Estrange. 
To carry a bone In the mouth, to throw up a foam or 
spray under the bows : said of a ship. 
See how she leaps, as the blasts o'ertake tier, 
And speeds away with a bone in her mouth .' 
Longfellow, Golden Legend, v. 
To flnd bonea In, to be unable to swallow : in allusion to 
the occurrence of fish-bones in soup. To have a bone 
In One's leg, throat, etc.. to be unable to go, talk, etc.: 
a feigned excuse. To make no bones of, to make or 
have no scruples about, or in regard to. [Now only 
colloq.] 
Perjury will easily downe with him that hath made no 
bones of mnrther. Bp. Hall, Cases of Conscience. 
To put a bone In any one's hoodt, to break a person's 
head, or cut it off. Without more bones, without 
further olijertion or scruple. Wormian bones, small 
or irregular bones frequently found in the course of the 
sutures of the skull. They occur chiefly in the sutures 
between the parietala and other bones, and are of no de- 
terminate si/e. shape, or number. Sometimes there are 
iinne, sometimes several hundred. 
bone 1 (bon), I-.; pret. and pp. boned, ppr. bon- 
ing. [< bow 1 , .] I. trans. 1. To take out 
the bones of: as, to bone a turkey, a ham, etc. 
2. To put whalebone into. 3. To manure 
with bone-dust. 4. To seize; make off with, 
as a dog makes off with a bone ; get possession 
of ; appropriate ; steal. [Slang.] 
Why you were living here, and what you had boned, and 
who you bvnftl it from, wasn't it'.' /'/rAvn*. 
II. intrmiK. [Appar. < bone 1 , n., in allusion 
to the knuckle; of. the equiv. phrase knurkle 
iloirn (to n taskX] To apply one's self dili- 
gently; sot one's self determinedly to work: 
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as, to bnnf down to hard work ; he boned hard. 
[Slang.] 
bone'-, born-, bourn 3 (bon, born), v. t. [A 
word of uncertain form and origin, commonly 
bone (chiefly in the verbal n. lioniiin), but prob. 
orig. bourn, being appar. a particular (trade) 
use of bourn 2 , bourne'*, as a verb, limit: see 
bourn-, bourne*,'] To take the level of (a piece 
of land, a wall, carpentry-work, and the like) 
by means of an instrument. See boning. 
A few weeks ago a mason said to me, "Take a quint, 
please, and see If the ridge-piece in square and level ; 
bourn' it by the wall-plate." Bourne is in common use 
In this neignlHrtirhood twenty miles from Stratford-on- 
Avon. .V. and Q., 7th ser., lit. 05. 
bone :t t (bou), . A Middle English form of 
boonl. Chaucer. 
bone't (bon), a. A Middle English form of 
boon 2 . 
bone-acet (bon'as), . 1. A game at cards, in 
which the third card dealt to each person is 
turned up, and the player who has the highest 
card wins the bone, that is, half the stake. 
2. The ace of diamonds, the highest card in this 
game. 
bone-ache (bon'ak), . Pain in the bones. 
bone-ash (bou'ash), . Same as bone-earth. 
bone-bed (bon'bed), M. In geol., any stratum 
of rock which is largely made up of fragments 
of bones, or in which bones and teeth occur in 
such quantity as to be conspicuous. There are 
two especially well-known bone-teds in Europe. One, 
called the Ludlow, in England, is near the top of the Up- 
per Silurian ; although only a few inches in thickness, it 
Is continuous over an area of at least a thousand square 
miles ; it is full of fragments of fish-bones, crustaceans, and 
shells. The other bone-bed is on the Rhictic, at the top 
of the Trias ; this contains the bones and teeth of fishes, 
with coprolites, etc.; it is found both in England and in 
Germany. 
bone-binder (bon'bm'der), . A name for os- 
teocolla (which see). 
bone-black (bon'blak), M. The black carbo- 
naceous substance into which bones are con- 
verted by calcination in closed vessels. This 
kind of charcoal is employed to deprive various solutions, 
particularly syrups, of their coloring matters, and to fur- 
nish a black pigment. Artificial bone-black consists of 
woody matters impregnated with calcium phosphate dis- 
solved in hydrochloric acid, thus resembling the real bone- 
black in composition. Also called annual black, animal 
charcoal. Bone-black furnace, a furnace used in re- 
moving from bone-black, by burning, impurities collected 
in it during it.- use in filtration, decolorization, etc. 
bone-breaker (bon'bra'ker), . 1. A name of 
the giant fulmar petrel, Ossifraga gigantea. 
2. A book-name of the osprey, fish-hawk, or 
ossifrage, Pandion haliaetus. 
bone-breccia (bon'brecb/i-S), . In geol., a con- 
glomerate of fragments of Bones and limestone 
cemented into a rock by calcareous matter. 
Such deposits are of frequent occurrence In caverns which 
in prehistoric times were resorted to by man and wild 
beasts. 
bone-brown (bon'broun), . A brown pigment 
produced by roasting bones or ivory till they 
become brown throughout. 
bone-cartilage (bon'kar'ti-laj), . Inphysiol., 
same as ossein. 
bone-cave (bon'kav), M. A cave in which are 
found bones of animals of living or extinct 
species, or species living only in far distant lo- 
calities or a different climate within historic 
times, sometimes with the bones of man or other 
traces of his contemporaneous existence. 
The brick-earths also contain the remains of a species 
of lion (Fells spelrea), no longer living, but which is like- 
wise found in some of the bone-caves of this country. 
Huxley, Physiography, p. 2S3. 
boned (bond), p. . [< bone 1 + -erf 1 .] 1. Hav- 
ing bones (of the kind indicated in composi- 
tion) : as, high-/)0erf; strong-Oonerf. 2. In 
cookery, freed from bones : as, a boned fowl. 
bone-dog (bon'dog), n. A local English name 
of the common dogfish, Squalus acantiiias. See 
cut under dogfish. 
bone-dust (bon'dust), . Bones ground to dust 
for use as manure. See bone 1 , n., 2. 
bone-earth (bon'erth), . The earthy or min- 
eral residue of bones which have been calcined 
or burned with free access of air so as to destroy 
the animal matter and carbon, it is a white, po- 
rous, and friable substance, composed chiefly of calcium 
phosphate, and is used by assayers as the material for 
cupels and in making china, and for other purposes. Also 
called bone-ash. 
bone-eater (bon'e'ter), n. A sailors' corrup- 
tion of bonito. 
bonefiret (bon'fir), . See bonfire. 
bpne-fish (bon 'fish), . 1. A name of the lady- 
fish, macab6, or French mullet, Albula vulpes. 
See cut under Itnliifinli. 2. A fish of the fami- 
bone-spirit 
ly Teiithifliila' and K'eims Ti'iitliinnr .Ifiinthumt; 
a surgeon- or dnctnr-tiHii. 3. A name of tin 
common dogfish, Squnlnn in-nutliias, in southern 
New England. See cut under dogjifh. 
bone-flower (Mn'floo'er), n. In the north of 
Kngliind, the daisy, /'< Hi* //>/< //<-. 
bone-glass (bon'glas), H. A glass made by 
ii'lilnif,' to white i;l"ss from [II to L'II p. r cent, of 
white bone-earth, or a corresponding quantity 
of mineral phosphates. It is of a milk-white 
color, semi-opaque, and is used for lamp-shadoH, 
etc. 
bone-glue (bon'glS), n. An inferior kind of 
glue obtained from bones. 
bone-lace (bon'las), n. Lace, usually of linen 
thread, made on a cushion with bobbing, and 
taking its sole or chief decorative character 
from the pattern woven into it, as distinguished 
from point-lace : so named from the fact that 
the bobbins were originally made of bone. 
boneless (bon'les), a. [< ME. battles, < AS. 
bdnleds, < ban, bone, + -leas, -less.] Without 
bones; wanting bones : as, " his boneless gums," 
Shak., Macbeth, i. 7. 
bonelet (bon'let), . [< bone* + dim. -let.'] A 
small bone ; an ossicle : as, bonelets of the ear. 
Bonellia (bo-wl'i-a), n. [NL., named after 
Francesco Andrea 'tionelli, an Italian naturalist 
(died in 1830).] 1. A genus of chwtophorous 
gephyreans, related to Echiurus, and having, 
uke it, a pair of tubular ciliated organs opening 
communication between the rectum and the 
perivisceral cavity. It is provided with a single 
long tentacular appendage upon the head. 2. 
A genus of dipterous insects. Desvoidy, 1830. 
3. A genus of gastropodous mollusks. Des- 
hayes, 1838. 
bonelliid (bo-nel'i-id), n. A gephyrean of the 
family Boiiflliidtr. 
Bonelliidae (bo-ue-li'i-de), n. jil. [NL., < Bonel- 
lia + -ida- .] A family of gephyreans, typified 
by the genus Bonellia (which see). 
bone-manure (bon'ma-nur*), . Manure con- 
sisting of bones ground to dust, broken in small 
pieces, or dissolved in sulphuric acid. See 
bone 1 , n., 2. 
bone-mill (bon 'mil), n. A mill for grinding or 
bruising bones, used in the preparation of fer- 
tilizers. bone-black, etc. 
bone-naphtha (bdn'naf'tha), . A volatile li- 
quid, boiling at 150 F., obtained by the repeat- 
ed rectification of the more volatile portion of 
Dippel's oil. 
bone-nippers (bon'nip'erz), n. j>l. A strong 
forceps with cutting edges touching each other, 
used in cutting off splinters of bone and car- 
tilages. 
bone-oil (bon'oil), n. A fetid, tarry liquid ob- 
tained in the dry distillation of bone. See 
Dippers oil, under oil. 
bone-phosphate (bon'fos'fat), w. A commercial 
name for tricalcium phosphate, Ca3(POi)2j the 
phosphate which forms bone-tissue, and which 
makes up the larger part of the phosphatic 
rock of South Carolina and other localities. 
bone-pot (bon'pot), . 1. A cast-iron pot in 
which bones are carbonized: used in the man- 
ufacture of animal charcoal. 2. A common 
name of the ancient British funeral urns often 
found under ground in England. 
boneset (bon'set), r. i. ; pret. and pp. boueset, 
ppr. bonesetting. To set bones; practise the 
setting of broken bones. Wiseman. [Rare.] 
boneset (bou'set), . [< boneset, t: ; from its 
supposed properties.] 1. The thorough wort, 
Eupatorium perjbliatum. See u]>atorium. 2. 
In England, an old name for the comfrey, Sym- 
jilii/tii/n iiffidnale. 
bone-setter (bon'set'er), n. One whose occu- 
pation is to set broken and dislocated bones; 
one who has a knack at setting bones: gen- 
erally applied to one who is not a regularly 
qualified surgeon. 
bone-setting (bon'set'ing), n. [Verbal n. of 
boneset, r.] The art or practice of setting 
bones. 
bone-shark (bon'shark), . A common name 
along the New England coast of Cetorhinus 
iix. the basking-shark. See cut under 
, 
bone-shawt, ". Sciatica or hip-gout. X. E. D. 
bone-spavin (bon'spav'in), M. In farriery, a 
disease of the bones at the hock-joint. 
bone-spirit (bon'spir'it), . Crude ammonia- 
cal liquor containing various substances, ob- 
tained in the process of manufacturing charcoal 
from bones. 
