Word Meanings - BONELESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without bones. "Boneless gums." Shak.

WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
BONESET
A medicinal plant, the thoroughwort . Its properties are diaphoretic and tonic.
WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer.
BONELESS
Without bones. "Boneless gums." Shak.
WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
BONESETTER
One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones. -- Bone"set*ting, n.
BONESHAW
Sciatica.
WHETTLEBONES
The vertebræ of the back. Dunglison.
RACKABONES
A very lean animal, esp. a horse.
SAWBONES
A nickname for a surgeon.
NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS
A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations
LAZYBONES
A lazy person.
CROSSBONES
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.
BLOODYBONES
A terrible bugbear.