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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

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

To fertilize with bone.

To put whalebone into.

Example: to bone stays

To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

Example: boning rod

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

To apprehend, steal.

To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

A musical instrument in the brass family, having a cylindrical bore, and usually a sliding tube (but sometimes piston valves, and rarely both). Most often refers to the tenor trombone, which is the most common type of trombone and has a fundamental tone of B♭ˌ (contra B♭).

Example: Jim plays the trombone very well.

The common European bittern.