bony (bon i)

[ Burning for blood, bony , and gaunt, and grim, A embling wolves in raging troops descend. Thomson, Winter, 1. 394. IMG:content-2321.png:[graphic] 3. Reduced to bones; thin; attenuated.-4. Hard and tough like bone, as the fruit and seeds of some plants. bony-fish (bō'ni-fish), n. A local (Connecticut) name of the menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus. bonzary (bon'za-ri), n. [ bonnyclabber (bon'i-klab-er), n . [Also former- ly written bonny clabber , bonniclapper , bony - han , strike.] A Buddhist monk, especially clabo, etc.; To drink such balderdash or bonny - clabber . B. Jonson, New Inn, i. 1. The feasts, the manly stomachs, The healths in usquebaugh and bonny - clabber . Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 2.