bone (the usual senses are freq.; 2 used only in oaths; 4 cf. ‘The lace-makers still call their work getting their bread out of the bones’, Nares)
1.
“young bones,”
unborn child Lr. II. iv. 165.
2.
“ten bones,” fingers
2H6 I. iii. 193.
3.
pl. some rude musical
instrument MND. IV. i. 33.
4.
pl. bobbins with
which bone-lace was made
Tw.N. II. iv. 45
“weave their thread with
bones.”
