bone marrow see marrow¹

bone marrow grafting noun (medicine)

Grafting or transplantation of bone marrow to patients with bone marrow failure (used in aplastic anaemia or after therapeutic destruction of the bone marrow in leukaemia)

bone meal noun

Ground bones used as fertilizer and as animal feed

boneˈ-mill noun

A mill where bones are ground

bone of contention noun

Something that causes strife

boneˈ-oil noun

A liquid produced by the destructive distillation of bones

boneˈset noun

A N American species of hemp agrimony

boneˈsetter noun

A person who treats broken or dislocated bones, esp when not surgically qualified

boneˈshaker noun

1. An informal name for earlier forms of bicycle
2. An old or unreliable vehicle with inadequate suspension

bone spavin see under spavin

bonetired see bone-weary below.

boneˈ-turˈquoise noun

A blue fossil bone or tooth used as turquoise

boneˈ-weary or boneˈtired adjective

Utterly exhausted

boneˈyard noun (slang)

A cemetery

bony fishes plural noun

The Teleostei, an order of fishes including most of the living forms

bony pike noun

The American (and fossil) garfish

a bone to pick (informal)

1. A difference to be cleared up (with somebody)
2. Something to occupy one (archaic)

bare bones

The essentials (of a subject)

bone up on (informal)

To study or collect information about (a subject)

close to the bone same as near the bone (see below).

feel in one's bones

To know instinctively, without proof

make no bones of or about

1. To have no scruples about
2. To make no fuss or difficulty about
3. To be quite open about

near the bone

1. On the verge of being indecent
2. Offensively pointed
3. Mean
4. Hard up, poor

(never) make old bones

(not) to live to old age

off (or on) the bone

(of meat or fish) with its bones (not) removed

to the bone

1. To the inmost part
2. To the minimum

work one's fingers to the bone

To work until one is exhausted

marrow¹ /marˈō/

1. The soft tissue in the hollow parts of the bones (also bone marrow)
2. Pith or pulp of plants (obsolete)
3. A vegetable marrow (see under vegetable)
4. The essence or best part of anything
5. The inner meaning or purpose

marrˈowish adjective

Of the nature of, or resembling, marrow

marrˈowless adjective

Having no marrow

marrˈowy adjective

1. Full of marrow
2. Strong
3. Forcible
4. Pithy

marrˈow-bone noun

1. A bone containing marrow
2. (in pl) the knees or the bones of the knees

marrˈowfat noun

A rich kind of pea, also called Dutch admiral pea

marrˈow-men plural noun (historical)

Those who in the Church of Scotland supported the teaching of The Marrow of Modern Divinity (1645) after its republication in 1718

marrˈow-squash noun (US)

Vegetable marrow

spinal marrow

The spinal cord

to the marrow

To the core