bondholder |
one who holds or owns bonds; one who receives payment of interest on a bond or bonds. |
bonding |
the formation of close personal relationships, as between family members or friends. |
bondman |
a male bound as a slave or serf; bond servant. |
bond paper |
a high-grade paper with some proportion of rag content, used for stationery and documents; bond. |
bond servant |
one who is bound as a slave or serf. [2 definitions] |
bondsman1 |
one who provides bail or surety for another. |
bondsman2 |
variant of bondman. |
bondswoman1 |
a woman who provides bail or surety for another. |
bondswoman2 |
variant of bondwoman. |
bondwoman |
a female bond servant. |
bone |
the hard, calcified connective tissue that forms the skeleton of most vertebrates. [5 definitions] |
boneblack |
the carbonized residue of heat-treated bones, used as a blacking pigment or decoloring agent. |
bone china |
a fine type of white porcelain produced by mixing bone ash or calcium phosphate with the clay. |
bone-dry |
(informal) dry as a bone after prolonged exposure to sun and wind; very dry or thirsty. |
bonefish |
any of several silvery marine fishes, esp. a bottom-feeder living in shallow tropical waters, having a skeleton composed of many small bones. |
boneless |
of meat or fish, with bones removed. |
bone marrow |
the the soft fatty tissue at the core of most bones, where many types of blood cells form and mature before entering the blood stream. |
bone meal |
bones that have been coarsely ground, used as fertilizer and animal feed. |
bone of contention |
an issue or matter that causes or is the focus of disagreement. |
boner |
a stupid or foolish error; blunder. |
boneset |
any of various plants of eastern North America that bear broad, flat clusters of small white flowers, used in folk medicine for their supposed healing qualities; thoroughwort. |