Index of English words, starting with "bo"

(1) - Bondsman (n.) A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another.
(2) - Bondsman (n.) A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman.

(1) - Bondstone (n.) A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.

(1) - Bone (v. t.) To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
(2) - Bone (v. t.) To steal; to take possession of.
(3) - Bone (v. t.) To fertilize with bone.
(4) - Bone (v. t.) To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
(5) - Bone (v. t.) To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
(6) - Bone (n.) Fig.: The framework of anything.
(7) - Bone (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
(8) - Bone (n.) Dice.
(9) - Bone (n.) Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
(10) - Bone (n.) Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
(11) - Bone (n.) 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. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
(12) - Bone (n.) The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.