bones

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any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates.

:
his injuries included many broken bones
2.

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the calcified material of which bones consist.

:
an earring of bone
1.

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remove the bones from (meat or fish).

:
while the gumbo is simmering, bone the cooked chicken
2.

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study (a subject) intensively, typically in preparation for something.

:
she boned up on languages she had learned long ago and went back to New Guinea