These are the meanings of the letters BONCE when you unscramble them.
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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.
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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.
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Bone (n.)
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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Bone (n.)
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
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Bone (n.)
Dice.
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Bone (n.)
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
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Bone (n.)
Fig.: The framework of anything.
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Bone (v. t.)
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
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Bone (v. t.)
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
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Bone (v. t.)
To fertilize with bone.
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Bone (v. t.)
To steal; to take possession of.
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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.
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Cone (n.)
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a vertical point and bounded by a surface which is described by a straight line always passing through that vertical point; a solid having a circle for its base and tapering to a point or vertex.
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Cone (n.)
Anything shaped more or less like a mathematical cone; as, a volcanic cone, a collection of scoriae around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form.
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Cone (n.)
The fruit or strobile of the Coniferae, as of the pine, fir, cedar, and cypress. It is composed of woody scales, each one of which has one or two seeds at its base.
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Cone (n.)
A shell of the genus Conus, having a conical form.
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Cone (v. t.)
To render cone-shaped; to bevel like the circular segment of a cone; as, to cone the tires of car wheels.
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Ebon (a.)
Consisting of ebony.
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Ebon (a.)
Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
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Ebon (n.)
Ebony.
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Once (adv.)
By limitation to the number one; for one time; not twice nor any number of times more than one.
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Once (adv.)
At some one period of time; -- used indefinitely.
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Once (adv.)
At any one time; -- often nearly equivalent to ever, if ever, or whenever; as, once kindled, it may not be quenched.