bone vs maxilla

bone

noun
  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone. 

  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 

  • One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music. 

  • The wishbone formation. 

  • A domino or dice. 

  • A cannabis cigarette; a joint. 

  • The framework of anything. 

  • A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 

  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 

  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

  • A dollar. 

  • Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 

  • An erect penis; a boner. 

  • A reward. 

  • A bonefish 

adj
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

verb
  • To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 

  • To apprehend, steal. 

  • To study. 

  • To have sexual intercourse (with). 

  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 

  • To nag, especially for an unpaid debt. 

  • To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. 

  • To put whalebone into. 

  • To fertilize with bone. 

  • To polish boots to a shiny finish. 

maxilla

noun
  • An upper jaw especially of humans and other mammals in which the bony elements are closely fused. 

  • One of the first or second pair of mouthparts posterior to the mandibles in many arthropods that are used for tasting and manipulating food. 

  • Either of the two bones that lie with one on each side of the upper jaw lateral to the premaxilla and that in higher vertebrates bear most of the teeth. 

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