ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not furnished with a bone; boneless.

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a. 1650.  May, Satir. Puppy (1657), 32. Her Chastitie being starv’d … and her Fort vanquisht by an unboned Member (the Tongue).

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  2.  Not manured with bones.

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1849.  Johnston, Exp. Agric., 57. On the old boned field, the crop was four times as bulky as on the unboned field.

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  3.  Of meat: Not having the bone(s) removed.

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