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See Canon Bone.

The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.

To broil. [Obs.] "We had a calf's head carboned". Pepys.

The clavicle.

The small pastern bone of the horse and allied animals.

A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc.

Having dry bones, or bones without flesh.

Same as Aitchbone.

A substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of geese and turkeys.

Any garfish (Belone or Tylosurus).

rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions. Herringbone stitch, a kind of cross-stitch in needlework, chiefly used in flannel. Simmonds.

See Whirlbone.

The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

A lazy person. [Colloq.]

A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]

Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.