All English words - page 626

Meanings of Bone dry:

adjective

Completely or extremely dry.

Usage examples:

The springs failed this year, leaving the riverbed bone dry

idiom

Completely dry

Usage examples:

My boots kept my feet bone-dry even after a long walk through deep snow., the turkey was overcooked…

Meanings of Bone to pick:

idiom

To want to talk to someone about something annoying they have done

Usage examples:

I've got a bone to pick with you - you've been using my shaver again.

Meanings of Bone up:

phrasal verb

Study intensively, as before an exam

Meanings of Bone-idle:

idiom

Extremely lazy

Usage examples:

He never does any exercise - he's bone idle.

Meanings of Bonefishes:

noun

A silvery game fish of warm coastal waters.

Usage examples:

For the next hour or so we moved slowly along the mangroves seeing the odd bonefish, barracuda and …

Meanings of Boneheads:

noun

A stupid person.

Usage examples:

The mere mention of the words ‘far right’ calls forth an image of tattooed boneheads or the spectre…

Meanings of Boneless:

adjective

(of meat or fish) having had the bones removed before being sold, cooked, or served.

Usage examples:

Boneless chicken breasts

Meanings of Bonelessness:

noun

The quality or condition of being boneless.

Meanings of Bonelet:

noun

A small bone or calcified cartilage; an ossicle.

Meanings of Bonemeal:

noun

A substance made from crushed dried bones that is used to improve the earth to make plants grow better

Meanings of Bonesets:

noun

A north american plant of the daisy family, which bears clusters of small white flowers and is used in herbal medicine.

Usage examples:

Secondly, don't forget the potency and value of our local herbs such as boneset and lemon balm for …

Meanings of Boneshave:

noun

Painful disease affecting (or thought to affect) a bone or joint; especially sciatica.

Meanings of Bonework:

noun

Items made or carved from bone, considered collectively; (sometimes) specifically decoration made from carved or inlaid bone.

Meanings of Boney:

adjective

Of or like bone.

Usage examples:

The bony plates that protect turtles and tortoises

Meanings of Boneyard:

noun

A cemetery.

Usage examples:

It was a seventeenth-century boneyard, the oldest in the city

Meanings of Bonfires:

noun

A large open-air fire used for burning rubbish or as part of a celebration.

Usage examples:

The smell of burning leaves from a garden bonfire

Meanings of Bong:

noun

A low-pitched, resonant sound of the kind made by a large bell.

Usage examples:

The clock had struck the hour and it was only three bongs

verb

(especially of a bell) emit a low-pitched, resonant sound.

Usage examples:

Several eyes looked at the clock, its trusty chimes bonged 3: 00.

Meanings of Bongos:

noun

Each of a joined pair of small deep-bodied drums, typically held between the knees and played with the fingers.

Usage examples:

The tabla is sort of a cross between the bongos and snare drum.

Meanings of Bongs:

noun

A low-pitched, resonant sound of the kind made by a large bell.

Usage examples:

The clock had struck the hour and it was only three bongs

verb

(especially of a bell) emit a low-pitched, resonant sound.

Usage examples:

Several eyes looked at the clock, its trusty chimes bonged 3: 00.

Meanings of Bonhomies:

noun

Cheerful friendliness; geniality.

Usage examples:

He exuded good humour and bonhomie

Meanings of Boniest:

adjective

Of or like bone.

Usage examples:

The bony plates that protect turtles and tortoises

Meanings of Boniface:

proper noun

(680–754), anglo-saxon missionary; born wynfrith; known as the apostle of germany. he was sent to frisia and germany to spread the christian faith and was appointed primate of germany in 732; he was martyred in frisia. feast day, 5 june.

Meanings of Bonification:

noun

The action or an instance of making something good or better; amelioration, improvement; (in later use) specifically the reclamation of land for the purpose of cultivation, construction, etc.

Meanings of Bonify:

verb

To make (something, especially that which is bad or unsatisfactory) good or better; to improve.

Meanings of Bonito:

noun

A small tuna with dark oblique stripes on the back, important as a food and game fish.

Usage examples:

The family scombridae, the mackerels, tunas, and bonitos, includes some of the world's most popular…