Bony

(adj.) having bones especially many or prominent bones; 'a bony shad fillet'; 'her bony wrist'; 'bony fish' .

(adj.) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; 'emaciated bony hands'; 'a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys'; 'eyes were haggard and cavernous'; 'small pinched faces'; 'kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration' .

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• Mukle—to the rector, Mrs Mukle to her friends—was a hard-featured, bony woman, who looked as if she had been cut out of a deal board. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A tall, bony woman--straight all the way down--in a coarse, blue pelisse, with the waist an inch or two below her arm-pits, responded to the call. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• A tall, bony colored woman now entered the kitchen, bearing on her head a basket of rusks and hot rolls. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The other was a red-headed, bony man, in top-boots; with a rather ill-favoured countenance, and a turned-up sinister-looking nose. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Rub into the surface of the meat some dry salicylic acid, particularly about the bony and fatty parts; the meat to be afterward cleaned before cooking as usual. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• The fish were small and bony, and the potatoes were a little burnt. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And as to being regarded in lights, there's bumpey lights as well as bony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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