bones

noun
/bəʊnz/UK/boʊnz/US

Etymology

From sawbones.

Definitions

  1. plural of bone

  2. A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine…

    A percussive folk musical instrument played as a pair in one hand, often made from bovine ribs.

  3. Dice for gambling.

  4. + 5 more definitions
    1. Synonym of fist bump.

    2. The framework or foundation of something.

      • The house don't fall when the bones are good.
    3. third-person singular simple present indicative of bone

    4. A surname.

    5. A surgeon.

      • And then the door swung wide upon its hinges, and Bones - our surgeon - Dr. Sawin, outside the service - broke into the room with his favorite greeting: “Hello, inside! Never mind the guard!

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at bones. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bones. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at bones

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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