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ˈraw-boned, a.
[f. as prec.]
Having projecting bones, barely covered with flesh; excessively lean or gaunt. Also transf.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 35 Leane raw-bon'd Rascals, who would e're suppose, They had such courage and audacitie? 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 229 Those that are dry, raw-boned and bloudlesse. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2127/4 Edward Woodcocke, a tall raw-boned Man, down lookt. 1762Foote Lyar ii. Wks. 1799 I. 305 A raw-bon'd, over-grown, clumsy cook-wench. 1802C. Wilmot Let. 19 Oct. in T. V. Sadleir Irish Peer (1920) 102 A cold wild desolate country bare and rawboned. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. xxix, Dick turned again to the raw-boned steed which he was currying. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. xxiii, An elderly raw-boned woman with a skin burnt..brown. 1886W. Morris Let. 23 June in Mackail Life Morris (1899) II. xvi. 161 Stirling..a very raw-boned town. |