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Boneless

adjective

Being without a bone or bones.

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"Boneless" Quotes from Famous Books

... the main Homeric, but one of his charms is the use of quaint allusive phrases derived, perhaps, from a pre-Hesiodic peasant poetry: thus the season when Boreas blows is the time when 'the Boneless One gnaws his foot by his fireless hearth in his cheerless house'; to cut one's nails is 'to sever the withered from the quick upon that which has five branches'; similarly the burglar is the 'day-sleeper', and the serpent is the ...

— Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica • Homer and Hesiod

... versatile liar and boneless coward, and being entirely free from the milk of human kindness or bowels of compassion, his remains were eagerly sought after and yearned for by scientists long before he decided to ...

— Comic History of England • Bill Nye

... said the Doctor, who was standing at his writing-table in an attitude; "out there in the middle, where your schoolfellows can see you." Paul obeyed and stood where he was told, looking, as he felt, absolutely boneless. ...

— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey

Words linked to "Boneless" : deboned, bony, boned