Synonyms for bone
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bohn |
| Phonetic Transcription : boÊŠn |
Définition of bone
Origin :- Old English ban "bone, tusk," from Proto-Germanic *bainam (cf. Old Frisian ben, Old Norse bein, Danish ben, German Bein). No cognates outside Germanic (the common PIE root is *os-; see osseous); the Norse, Dutch, and German cognates also mean "shank of the leg," and this is the main meaning in Modern German, but English never seems to have had this sense.
- noun piece of animate skeleton
- The bullets of the posse had neither torn a tendon nor broken a bone.
- Extract from : « Way of the Lawless » by Max Brand
- I don't imagine there's a single one that cares a bone button for me.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
- The brain is hidden in darkness, sheltered within a box of bone.
- Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan
- "The magic of this bone is a very great magic," Simba was saying.
- Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White
- I had it now, the whole damnable, pitiful story, every fact clear-cut to the bone.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Take six pounds of the lean of fresh beef, cut from the bone.
- Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
- It was dull; but if I could have it all over again, I'd work my fingers to the bone.
- Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
- You touch them things ag'in, an' I'll break every bone in your body.
- Extract from : « Meadow Grass » by Alice Brown
- I mind the time when her yellow arms were naught but bone and parchment.
- Extract from : « The Uncommercial Traveller » by Charles Dickens
- Not so these classmates, who had known each other to the bone.
- Extract from : « The Gentleman From Indiana » by Booth Tarkington
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