marrowbone
- n a bone containing edible marrow; used especially in flavoring soup
- In the mind alone; He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrowbone; From all that makes a wise old man That can be praised of all; 0 what am I that I should not seem For the .
- In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope.