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blood | bone |

As a noun blood

is .

As a proper noun bone is

(historical) a city in eastern algeria, now known as annaba.

blood

English

(wikipedia blood)

Alternative forms

* bloud (obsolete)

Noun

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=4, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=The case was that of a murder. It had an element of mystery about it, however, which was puzzling the authorities. A turban and loincloth soaked in blood had been found; also a staff.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, title=A better waterworks, date=2013-06-01, volume=407, issue=8838
    • , page=5 (Technology Quarterly), magazine=(The Economist) citation , passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)
  • * (Edmund Waller) (1606-1687)
    • a friend of our own blood
  • * Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
    • to share the blood of Saxon royalty
  • A blood test or blood sample.
  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
  • * 1841 , Benjamin Parsons, Anti-Bacchus , page 95:
    • It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
  • * 1901 , Levi Leslie Lamborn, American Carnation Culture , fourth edition, page 57:
    • Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]
  • * 1916 , John Gordon Dorrance, The Story of the Forest , page 44:
    • Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood . It is white and looks very much like water; [...]
  • (label) The juice of anything, especially if red.
  • * Bible, (w) xiix. 11
    • He washedhis clothes in the blood of grapes.
  • (label) Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth
  • (label) A lively, showy man; a rake.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • Seest thou nothow giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
  • * (William Makepeace Thackeray) (1811-1863)
    • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood .
  • (member of a certain gang).

    • Hyponyms

    * menstruation

    Derived terms

    {{der3, bad blood , blood atonement , blood bank , bloodbath, blood bath , blood blister , blood brother , blood-curdling , blood diamond , blood donor , blood drive , blood eagle , bloodhound , blood is thicker than water , bloodless , bloodletting , bloodline , bloodlust, blood lust , bloody-minded , blood money , blood moon , blood orange , blood poisoning , blood product , blood pudding , blood relative, blood relation , blood sample , blood sausage , bloodshed , bloodshot , bloodsome , blood sport , bloodstain , blood-stained, bloodstained , bloodstream , bloodsucker , blood test , bloodthirsty , blood type , blood vessel , bloodwood , bloody , bloody mary , by blood , cold-blooded , first blood , for one's blood to boil , give blood , have blood on one's hands , have someone's blood on one's head , hot-blooded , in cold blood , make someone's blood boil , make someone's blood run cold , one's blood runs cold , 'sblood , smell blood , too rich for one's blood , warm-blooded}}

    Related terms

    * bleed

    See also

    * coagulation * sanguinary * sanguine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
  • To let blood (from); to bleed.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 121:
  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

    • Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    bone

    English

    (wikipedia bone)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * (l), (l) (dialectal)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
  • * {{quote-book, year= a1420
    • , year_published= 1894 , author= The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056 , by= (Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=6XktAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63 , original= , chapter= Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone , section= , isbn= 1163911380 , edition= , publisher= K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co , location= London , editor= Robert von Fleischhacker , volume= , page= 63 , passage= Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
  • (countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
  • (figurative) The framework of anything.
  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
  • (US, informal) A dollar.
  • (slang) An erect penis; a boner.
  • (slang) Dominoes or dice.
  • (slang) .
    • Synonyms
    * (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

    • Verb

    (bon)
  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
  • * 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],
    • One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.
  • * 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],
    • The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.
  • * 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],
    • Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.
  • * 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],
    • Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.
  • To fertilize with bone.
  • * 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],
    • He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”
  • To put whalebone into.
    • to bone stays
    (Ash)
  • (civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
    • boning rod
  • (vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.
    • So, did you bone her?
  • (Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
  • * 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.
    • "You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".
  • To study.
    • bone up
  • * 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums
    • "I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."
  • To polish boots to a shiny finish.
  • * F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]
    • "...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"
    Synonyms
    * (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

    Derived terms

    * auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

    See also

    * * coccygeal vertebra * cervical vertebra * calcaneus * carpal * acetabulum * clavicle * coccyx * costa * cranium * distal phalange * exostosis * femur * fibula * humerus * ilium * incus * inferior nasal concha * intermediate phalange * ischium * kneecap * lumbar vertebra * malleus * mandible * maxilla * metacarpal * metatarsal * myositis ossificans * orthopedic * os coxae * ossature * ossein * osseous * ossicle * ossification * ossify * ossuary * osteal * osteitis * osteoblast * osteoclasis * osteoclast * osteocyte * osteogenesis * osteolysis * osteoma * osteomalacia * osteomyelitis * osteophyte * osteoplastic * osteoplasty * osteoporosis * osteosarcoma * osteosis * osteotome * osteotomy * patella * pelvic girdle * pelvis * phalanx * proximal phalange * pubis * radius * rib * sacral vertebra * sacrum * scapula * shoulder blade * skeleton * skull * stapes * sternum * talus * tarsal * thoracic vertebra * tibia * trapezium * ulna * vertebra *

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    Etymology 2

    Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (slang) To apprehend, steal.
  • * 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],
    • “Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”
  • * 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,
    • as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,
    • Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

    Verb

    (bon)
  • (carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
    • (Knight)
  • * W. M. Buchanan
    • Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

    Anagrams

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