boning

noun

1. any of the separate parts of the hard connective tissue forming the skeleton of most full-grown vertebrate animals
2. this tissue, composed essentially of living cells embedded in hard calcium compounds
3. the skeleton
4. the body, living or dead
5. a bonelike substance or part, as whalebone
6. a thing made of bone or of bonelike material; specif.,
   1. a corset stay
   2. Informal dice
7. 1. flat sticks used as clappers in minstrel shows
   2. ☆ an end man in a minstrel show
8. bone white

transitive verb boned, boning

1. to remove the bones from
2. to put whalebone or other stiffening into
3. to fertilize with bone meal

intransitive verb