bones
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- n a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance
- n rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates
- n the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- n a shade of white the color of bleached bones
- v study intensively, as before an exam
- v remove the bones from
- Are you overweight? Diabetic? A new study suggests that maybe your bones are to blame.
- Chinaside marines of the Old Corps had some strange responsibilities, but the colonel of the embassy guard in Peking suspected that chaperoning a collection of old bones was asking .
- They may have been a lot like Kennewick Man, whose hotly disputed bones are helping rewrite our earliest history.