unbone
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unbone (third-person singular simple present unbones, present participle unboning, simple past and past participle unboned)
- To deprive of bones, as meat; to bone.
- (obsolete) To twist about, as if boneless.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
- writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes
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Further reading[edit]
- “unbone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.