'bones' definitions:
Definition of 'bones'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: bones, castanets, clappers, finger cymbals]
Synonyms of 'bones'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anatomy,
- appendicular skeleton,
- ashes,
- axial skeleton,
- battery,
- being,
- bells,
- bird cage,
- body,
- bosom,
- breast,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- castanets,
- celesta,
- chaff,
- chime,
- chimes,
- clappers,
- clay,
- clod,
- corpse,
- corpus,
- corpus delicti,
- crap game,
- crap shooting,
- craps,
- crash cymbal,
- crooked dice,
- crowbait,
- cubes,
- culm,
- cymbals,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- deadwood,
- decedent,
- dice,
- die,
- dishwater,
- draff,
- dregs,
- dry bones,
- dust,
- earth,
- embalmed corpse,
- esprit,
- exoskeleton,
- figure,
- filings,
- finger cymbals,
- flesh,
- food for worms,
- form,
- frame,
- gamelan,
- garbage,
- gash,
- glockenspiel,
- gong,
- guts,
- handbells,
- heart,
- heart of hearts,
- heartstrings,
- hogwash,
- hulk,
- husks,
- idiophone,
- inmost heart,
- inmost soul,
- innermost being,
- ivories,
- late lamented,
- leavings,
- lees,
- loaded dice,
- lyra,
- maraca,
- marimba,
- material body,
- metallophone,
- mortal remains,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- orchestral bells,
- organic remains,
- orts,
- parings,
- percussion,
- percussion instrument,
- percussions,
- percussive,
- person,
- physical body,
- physique,
- poker dice,
- potsherds,
- rags,
- raspings,
- rattle,
- rattlebones,
- refuse,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- scourings,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- scum,
- secret places,
- shards,
- shavings,
- sizzler,
- skeleton,
- slack,
- slag,
- slop,
- slops,
- snappers,
- soma,
- soul,
- spirit,
- stiff,
- stubble,
- sweepings,
- swill,
- tam-tam,
- tares,
- teeth,
- tenement of clay,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- tintinnabula,
- tonitruone,
- torso,
- triangle,
- trunk,
- tubular bells,
- vibes,
- vibraphone,
- viscera,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- weeds,
- xylophone
Words containing 'bones'
- Bone,
- Boned,
- Boning,
- bone up,
- A bone of contention,
- A bone to pick,
- Bicched bones,
- Bone Gap,
- Bone ash,
- Bone black,
- Bone breccia,
- Bone cave,
- Bone dust,
- Bone earth,
- Bone lace,
- Bone oil,
- Bone setter,
- Bone shark,
- Bone spavin,
- Bone turquoise,
- Bone whale,
- Cannon bone,
- Canon bone,
- Cartilage bone,
- Cheek bone,
- Chevron bones,
- Coffin bone,
- Collar bone,
- Coronary bone,
- Cramp bone,
- Crazy bone,
- Cuttle bone,
- Dry bone,
- Ethmoid bone,
- Exercise bone,
- Funny bone,
- Girdle bone,
- Haunch bone,
- Hip bone,
- Huckle bone,
- Hyoid bone,
- Innominate bone,
- Napier's bones,
- Nasal bones,
- Natch bone,
- Navicular bone,
- Palatine bones,
- Petrosal bone,
- Plate bone,
- Plowshare bone,
- Presphenoid bone,
- Pterygoid bone,
- Quadrate bone,
- Quadratojugal bone,
- Rewel bone,
- Rider's bone,
- Rowel bone,
- Ruell bone,
- Scaphoid bone,
- Scapholunar bone,
- Semilunar bone,
- Sesamoid bones,
- Shin bone,
- Sphenethmoid bone,
- Sphenoid bone,
- Sphenotic bone,
- Splenial bone,
- Splint bone,
- Stifle bone,
- Stirrup bone,
- Supraoccipital bone,
- Temporal bone,
- Thigh bone,
- To be upon the bones of,
- To make no bones,
- To pick a bone with,
- Tongue bone,
- Tympanic bone,
- Unciform bone,
- Whale's bone,
- Wishing bone,
- Wormian bones,
- arm bone,
- bare bone,
- bare bones,
- bone age,
- bone cell,
- bone char,
- bone china,
- bone dry,
- bone fat,
- bone marrow,
- bone of contention,
- calf bone,
- capitate bone,
- carpal bone,
- cuboid bone,
- cuneiform bone,
- elbow bone,
- fetter bone,
- flat bone,
- frontal bone,
- hamate bone,
- hook bones,
- ischial bone,
- jugal bone,
- lacrimal bone,
- leg bone,
- long bone,
- lunate bone,
- make no bones about,
- malar bone,
- mandibular bone,
- mastoid bone,
- membrane bone,
- metacarpal bone,
- nasal bone,
- neck bone,
- occipital bone,
- palatine bone,
- parietal bone,
- pin bone,
- pisiform bone,
- pubic bone,
- pyramidal bone,
- round bone,
- sesamoid bone,
- short bone,
- shoulder bone,
- skin and bones,
- sutural bone,
- tail bone,
- tarsal bone,
- trapezium bone,
- trapezoid bone,
- triquetral bone,
- turbinate bone,
- wedge bone,
- wormian bone,
- wrist bone,
- zygomatic bone,
- Bone Gap, IL,
- Dry-boned,
- bare-bones,
- big-boned,
- bone-covered,
- bone-dry,
- bone-idle,
- bone-lazy,
- fibrous dysplasia of bone,
- great pastern bone,
- light-boned,
- marble bones disease,
- red bone marrow,
- small pastern bone,
- strong-boned,
- t-bone steak,
- yellow bone marrow,
- Long-boned shad,
- bone-ash cup,
- bone-forming cell,
- bone-headed dinosaur