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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BO'NY, a. [from bone.] Consisting of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
1. Having large or prominent bones; stout;strong.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless]

Merriam Webster's

also boney adjective (bonier; -est) Date: 14th century 1. a. consisting of bone b. resembling bone 2. a. full of bones <a bony piece of fish> b. having prominent bones <a rugged bony face> 3. a. skinny, scrawny b. barren, lean

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (bonier, boniest) 1 (of a person) thin with prominent bones. 2 having many bones. 3 of or like bone. 4 (of a fish) having bones rather than cartilage. Derivatives: boniness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Bony Bon"y, a. 1. Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones. 2. Having large or prominent bones. Bony fish (Zo["o]l.), the menhaden. Bony pike (Zo["o]l.), the gar pike (Lepidosteus).

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. ...an old man with a bony face and white hair... He poked a long bony finger in Billy's chest. ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. The bony parts of a person's or animal's body are the parts made of bone. ...the bony ridge of the eye socket. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

angular, bone, cement, cemental, concrete, corneous, dense, diamondlike, dure, flat, flat-chested, fleshless, flintlike, flinty, gangling, gangly, gaunt, gawky, granitelike, granitic, hard, hard as nails, hardhearted, horny, iron-hard, ironlike, lank, lanky, lapideous, lean, lean-fleshed, lean-looking, lithoid, lithoidal, marble, marblelike, meager, obdurate, osseous, ossicular, ossiferous, ossified, osteal, rawboned, resistant, resistive, rocklike, rocky, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skinny, solid, spare, spidery, spindling, spindly, steellike, steely, stonelike, stony, thin-bellied, thin-fleshed, tough, twiggy, undersized, underweight