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To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery. "To bone a turkey." Soyer.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.

To enter, write, or register in a book or list. Let it be booked with the rest of this day's deeds. Shak.

what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.

Embrace; loving or affectionate inclosure; fold. Within the bosom of that church. Hooker.

The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.

To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Milton. The whole nation bowed their necks to the worst kind of tyranny. Prescott.

Having crooked legs, esp. with the knees bent outward. Johnson.

game of euchre. Right bower, the knave of the trump suit, the highest card (except the "Joker") in the game. -- Left bower, the knave of the other suit of the same color as the trump, being the next to the right bower in value. -- Best bower or Joker, in some forms of euchre and some other games, an extra card somet…

To roll, as a bowl or cricket ball. Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel, And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven. Shak.

A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

A shot, crooked timber, resembling a knee, used as a support.

The broken coat of the seed of wheat, rye, or other cereal grain, separated from the flour or meal by sifting or bolting; the coarse, chaffy part of ground grain.

Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying alluvial deposits. Lyell.

Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly.

A paste made by mixing powdered charcoal, coal, or coke with clay, molasses, tar, or other suitable substance. It is used for lining hearths, crucibles, etc. Called also steep.

man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf. The Lord hath broken forth upon mine enemies before me, as the breach of waters. 2 Sam. v. 20 A clear breach implies that the waves roll over the vessel without breaking. -- A clean breach implies that everything on deck is swept away. Ham. Nav.…

To shatter to pieces; to reduce to fragments. The victim broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. Prescott.

Capable of being broken.