Word Meanings - RAWBONED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RAWBONED)

• Lank
• Lean
• loose
• slender
• slim
• long
• lax
• rawboned

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of RAWBONED)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to RAWBONED)

• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• SLENDER
  Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i. -- Slen"der*ly, adv. -- Slen"der*ness, n. (more info) slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin, slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
• LOOSEN
  Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening
• LOOSESTRIFE
  The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant
• RAWBONED
  Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak.
• LOOSENESS
  The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• LOOSELY
  In a loose manner.
• LOOSENER
  One who, or that which, loosens.
• RETAIN
  1. To continue to hold; to keep in possession; not to lose, part with, or dismiss; to retrain from departure, escape, or the like. "Thy shape invisibleretain." Shak. Be obedient, and retain Unalterably firm his love entire. Milton. An executor
• RAWBONE
  Rawboned. Spencer.
• RETAINABLE
  Capable of being retained.
• RETAINAL
  The act of retaining; retention.
• RETAINER
  1. One who, or that which, retains. 2. One who is retained or kept in service; an attendant; an adherent; a hanger-on. 3. Hence, a servant, not a domestic, but occasionally attending and wearing his master's livery. Cowell. 4. The act of a
• FASTEN
  Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• UNLOOSEN
  To loosen; to unloose.
• OUTLOOSE
  A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.
• UNLOOSE
  To make loose; to loosen; to set free. Shak.