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Having (such) bones; -- used in composition; as, big-boned; strong-boned. No big-boned men framed of the Cyclops' size. Shak.

Without bones. "Boneless gums." Shak.

The clearing of bones from fish or meat.

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

ially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage. Milton. To play booty, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose; to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him afterwards. [Obs.] L'Estrange.

Rustic work, consisting of stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt.

A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.

d by a bow and string. -- Bow instrument (Mus.), any stringed instrument from which the tones are produced by the bow. -- Bow window (Arch.) See Bay window. -- To draw a long bow, to lie; to exaggerate. [Colloq.]

ten containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.

r rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that. Derham.

The bones which inclose the brain; the skull; the cranium.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth.

A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer.

was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.

breath, breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty. -- Under one's breath, in low tones.

cement, and commonly presenting a variety of colors. Bone breccia, a breccia containing bones, usually fragmentary. -- Coin breccia, a breccia containing coins.

Descent; pedigree; extraction. [Obs.] Honest gentlemen, I know not your breeding. Shak. Close breeding, In and in breeding, breeding from a male and female from the same parentage. -- Cross breeding, breeding from a male and female of different lineage. -- Good breeding, politeness; genteel deportment.…

ous than real; a false show; a cheat or fraud; a delusive scheme; an empty project; a dishonest speculation; as, the South Sea bubble. Then a soldier . . . Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. Shak.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.