These are the meanings of the letters POWEB-N when you unscramble them.
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Bone (n.)
The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.
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Bone (n.)
One of the pieces or parts of an animal skeleton; as, a rib or a thigh bone; a bone of the arm or leg; also, any fragment of bony substance. (pl.) The frame or skeleton of the body.
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Bone (n.)
Anything made of bone, as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
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Bone (n.)
Two or four pieces of bone held between the fingers and struck together to make a kind of music.
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Bone (n.)
Dice.
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Bone (n.)
Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset.
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Bone (n.)
Fig.: The framework of anything.
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Bone (v. t.)
To withdraw bones from the flesh of, as in cookery.
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Bone (v. t.)
To put whalebone into; as, to bone stays.
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Bone (v. t.)
To fertilize with bone.
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Bone (v. t.)
To steal; to take possession of.
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Bone (v. t.)
To sight along an object or set of objects, to see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying.
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Ebon (a.)
Consisting of ebony.
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Ebon (a.)
Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
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Ebon (n.)
Ebony.
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Enow ()
A form of Enough.
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Nope (n.)
A bullfinch.
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Open (a.)
Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead.
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Open (a.)
Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed.
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Open (a.)
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
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Open (a.)
Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect.
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Open (a.)
Without reserve or false pretense; sincere; characterized by sincerity; unfeigned; frank; also, generous; liberal; bounteous; -- applied to personal appearance, or character, and to the expression of thought and feeling, etc.
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Open (a.)
Not concealed or secret; not hidden or disguised; exposed to view or to knowledge; revealed; apparent; as, open schemes or plans; open shame or guilt.
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Open (a.)
Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing water ways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter.
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Open (a.)
Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration; as, an open account; an open question; to keep an offer or opportunity open.
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Open (a.)
Free; disengaged; unappropriated; as, to keep a day open for any purpose; to be open for an engagement.
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Open (a.)
Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; -- said of vowels; as, the an far is open as compared with the a in say.
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Open (a.)
Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure, as in uttering s.
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Open (a.)
Not closed or stopped with the finger; -- said of the string of an instrument, as of a violin, when it is allowed to vibrate throughout its whole length.
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Open (a.)
Produced by an open string; as, an open tone.
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Open (n.)
Open or unobstructed space; clear land, without trees or obstructions; open ocean; open water.
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Open (v. t.)
To make or set open; to render free of access; to unclose; to unbar; to unlock; to remove any fastening or covering from; as, to open a door; to open a box; to open a room; to open a letter.
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Open (v. t.)
To spread; to expand; as, to open the hand.
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Open (v. t.)
To disclose; to reveal; to interpret; to explain.
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Open (v. t.)
To make known; to discover; also, to render available or accessible for settlements, trade, etc.
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Open (v. t.)
To enter upon; to begin; as, to open a discussion; to open fire upon an enemy; to open trade, or correspondence; to open a case in court, or a meeting.
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Open (v. t.)
To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers.
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Open (v. i.)
To unclose; to form a hole, breach, or gap; to be unclosed; to be parted.
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Open (v. i.)
To expand; to spread out; to be disclosed; as, the harbor opened to our view.
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Open (v. i.)
To begin; to commence; as, the stock opened at par; the battery opened upon the enemy.
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Open (v. i.)
To bark on scent or view of the game.
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Peon (n.)
See Poon.
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Peon (n.)
A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
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Peon (n.)
A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
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Peon (n.)
See 2d Pawn.
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Pone (n.)
A kind of johnnycake.