bone

A bone.

Meanings

A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
The framework of anything.
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
A dollar.
The wishbone formation.
An erect penis; a boner.
A domino or dice.
A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
A reward.
Short form of trombone

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To fertilize with bone.
To put whalebone into.
To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
To study.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To apprehend, steal.
To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

From Middle English bon, from Old English bān, from Proto-Germanic *bainą, from *bainaz, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-.
Cognate with Scots bane, been, bean, bein, bain, North Frisian bien ("bone"), West Frisian bien, Dutch been, German Low German Been, Bein, German Bein, German Gebein, Swedish ben, Norwegian and Icelandic bein, Breton benañ, Latin perfinēs, Avestan 𐬠𐬫𐬈𐬥𐬙𐬈. Related also to Old Norse beinn (whence Middle English bain, bayne, bayn, beyn, Scots bein, bien), Icelandic beinn, Norwegian bein. See bain, bein.
Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.
Borrowed from French bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

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