noun

1. A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

2. Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

3. A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

Synonyms: rib, stay

verb

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

2. To fertilize with bone.

3. To put whalebone into.

   “to bone stays”

Synonyms: debone, unbone, bonk, bury the bone, fuck, screw, shag

adjective

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