bone

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The dense, semirigid, porous, calcified connective tissue forming the major portion of the skeleton of most vertebrates. It consists of a dense organic matrix and an inorganic, mineral component.
• noun Any of numerous anatomically distinct structures making up the skeleton of a vertebrate animal. There are more than 200 different bones in the human body.
• noun A piece of bone.
• noun The skeleton.
• noun The body.
• noun Mortal remains.
• noun An animal structure or material, such as ivory, resembling bone.
• noun Something made of bone or of material resembling bone, especially.
• noun A piece of whalebone or similar material used as a corset stay.
• noun Informal Dice.
• noun The fundamental plan or design, as of the plot of a book.
• noun Flat clappers made of bone or wood originally used by the end man in a minstrel show.
• noun The end man in a minstrel show.
• noun Vulgar Slang The penis.
• intransitive verb To remove the bones from.
• intransitive verb To stiffen (a piece of clothing) with stays, as of whalebone.
• intransitive verb Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse with. Used especially of a man.
• intransitive verb Vulgar Slang To have sexual intercourse.
• idiom (bone of contention) The subject of a dispute.
• idiom (bone to pick) Grounds for a complaint or dispute.
• idiom (in (one's) bones) In one's innermost feelings.
• idiom (to the bone) To an extreme degree.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To take out the bones of: as, to bone a turkey, a ham, etc.
• To put whalebone into.
• To manure with bone-dust.
• To seize; make off with, as a dog makes off with a bone; get possession of; appropriate; steal.
• To apply one's self diligently; set one's self determinedly to work: as, to bone down to hard work; he boned hard.
• noun A Middle English form of boon.
• A Middle English form of boon.
• To ‘hold up’ with a demand or importunate request for something, as for a small loan: as, to bone one for a ‘fiver.’
• noun In card-playing, a chip of the smallest value.
• noun A piece of horn or wood-fiber inserted in the sole of a wooden golf-club to prevent injury to the face of the club at the bottom.
• noun The midrib of a leaf, especially that of a sugar-cane leaf or the large midrib of a palmleaf.
• To take the level of (a piece of land, a wall, carpentry-work, and the like) by means of an instrument. See boning.
• noun An animal tissue, consisting of branching cells lying in an intercellular substance made hard with earthy salts (consisting of calcium phosphate with small amounts of calcium carbonate and magnesium phosphate, etc.), and forming the substance of the skeleton or hard framework of the body of most vertebrate animals.
• noun One of the parts which make up the skeleton or framework of vertebrate animals: as, a bone of the leg or head.
• noun plural The bones of the body taken collectively; the skeleton; hence, the bodily frame; a body.
• noun plural Mortal remains: the skeleton or bony structure being the most permanent part of a dead body.
• noun The internal shell of cuttlefishes of the family Sepiidœ, having the consistency of bone. Generally called cuttle-bone or cuttlefish-bone.
• noun Something made of bone, or of a substance resembling bone, as ivory, whalebone, etc.
• noun plural A person who performs with the bones.
• noun Half of the stake in the game of bone-ace (which see).
• noun In coal-mining, slaty or clayey portions or partings in coal.
• noun See the adjectives.
• noun See the adjectives.
• noun See the adjectives.