Available Definitions:
1) n. - The clearing of bones from fish or meat.
2) n. - The manuring of land with bones.
3) n. - A method of leveling a line or surface by sighting along the tops of two or more straight edges, or a range of properly spaced poles. See 3d Bone, v. t.
4) n. - Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
5) n. - Dice.
6) n. - Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
7) n. - Fig.: The framework of anything.
8) v. t. - To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
9) v. t. - To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
10) v. t. - To fertilize with bone.
11) v. t. - To steal; to take possession of.
12) v. t. - To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.