bone

Adjective

• consisting of or made up of bone
  • a bony substance
    
  • the bony framework of the body
    

Noun

• a shade of white the color of bleached bones

• the porous calcified substance from which bones are made

• rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates

Verb

• remove the bones from
  • bone the turkey before roasting it
    

• study intensively, as before an exam
  • I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  ivory , pearl , off-white , osseous tissue , os , debone , cram , grind away , drum , bone up , swot , get up , mug up , swot up