Word Meanings - BONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing

Additional info about word: BONE

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone. Note: Even in the hardest parts of bone there are many minute cavities containing living matter and connected by minute canals, some of which connect with larger canals through which blood vessels ramify. 2. One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. The frame or skeleton of the body. 3. Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 4. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BONE)

• Pest
• Plague
• nuisance
• curse
• annoyance
• blight
• bone
• scourge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BONE)

• Bless

Related words: (words related to BONE)

• NUISANCE
  That which annoys or gives trouble and vexation; that which is offensive or noxious. Note: Nuisances are public when they annoy citizens in general; private, when they affect individuals only. (more info) nocentia guilt, fr. nocere to hurt, harm;
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• CURSEDLY
  In a cursed manner; miserably; in a manner to be detested; enormously.
• ANNOYANCE
  1. The act of annoying, or the state of being annoyed; molestation; vexation; annoy. A deep clay, giving much annoyance to passengers. Fuller. For the further annoyance and terror of any besieged place, they would throw into it dead bodies.
• CURSED
  Deserving a curse; execrable; hateful; detestable; abominable. Let us fly this cursed place. Milton. This cursed quarrel be no more renewed. Dryden.
• BLESSEDLY
  Happily; fortunately; joyfully. We shall blessedly meet again never to depart. Sir P. Sidney.
• CURSER
  One who curses.
• PLAGUEFUL
  Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.
• BLIGHT
  as E. bleak. The meaning "to blight" comes in that case from to glitter, hence, to be white or pale, grow pale, make pale, bleach. 1. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of. blasts vegetables, blights
• SCOURGER
  One who scourges or punishes; one who afflicts severely. The West must own the scourger of the world. Byron.
• BLESSED
  Beatified. 6. Used euphemistically, ironically, or intensively. Not a blessed man came to set her free. R. D. Blackmore. (more info) 1. Hallowed; consecrated; worthy of blessing or adoration; heavenly; holy. O, run; prevent them with thy humble
• NUISANCER
  One who makes or causes a nuisance.
• PLAGUER
  One who plagues or annoys.
• PLAGUELESS
  Free from plagues or the plague.
• BLESSER
  One who blesses; one who bestows or invokes a blessing.
• BLIGHTING
  Causing blight.
• BLESSED THISTLE
  See THISTLE
• BLESSEDNESS
  The state of being blessed; happiness; felicity; bliss; heavenly joys; the favor of God. The assurance of a future blessedness. Tillotson. Single blessedness, the unmarried state. "Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness." Shak. Syn.
• BLESS
  bloedsian, fr. bl blood; prob. originally to consecrate by sprinkling 1. To make or pronounce holy; to consecrate And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it. Gen. ii. 3. 2. To make happy, blithesome, or joyous; to confer prosperity
• BLIGHTINGLY
  So as to cause blight.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• CONSTABLESS
  The wife of a constable.
• RIBLESS
  Having no ribs.
• LIMBLESS
  Destitute of limbs.
• THUMBLESS
  Without a thumb. Darwin.
• PRECURSE
  A forerunning. Shak.
• CUBLESS
  Having no cubs. Byron.
• SHRUBLESS
  having no shrubs. Byron.
• HERBLESS
  Destitute of herbs or of vegetation. J. Warton.
• UNBLESS
  To deprive of blessings; to make wretched. Shak.
• TOMBLESS
  Destitute of a tomb.
• OCCURSE
  See BENTLEY