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boneless

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Bone´less
a.1.Without bones.
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Adj.1.boneless - being without a bone or bones; "jellyfish are boneless"
boney, bony - having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"
Translations
boneless [ˈbəʊnlɪs] ADJ
1. (Anat) → sin hueso(s), deshuesado
2. (fig) → sin carácter, débil


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So that this whole enormous boneless mass is as one wad.
Hesiod's diction is in 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 `hairless one'.
Then they struck up a frantic dance, with maniacal gestures, idiotic stampings, and somersaults like those of the boneless clowns in the circus.
 
 
 
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