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† raw-bone, a. and n.
[f. raw a. 6 c.]
A. adj. = raw-boned.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 65 So many men as were in Ierusalem, so many pale raw-bone ghosts you would haue thought you had seene. 1660Albert Durer Revived 5 A thin slender wast, a raw-bone arm. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2122/4 A slender raw-bone Man. 1704N. N. tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. I. 235 Mounted on Sir Hudibrass's raw-bone Steed. 1772Brydges Homer Trav. (1797) I. 10 His quiver..Rattled against his raw-bone back.
B. n. A very lean or gaunt person, a mere skeleton; pl. Death.
1638Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. (1651) 519 A long lean rawbone, a skeleton, a sneaker. 1784Unfortunate Sensibility I. 116 Till old Raw-bones..strips them till they are, like himself, naked to the very bone. |