Meanings
verbunbone (third-person singular simple present unbones, present participle unboning, simple past and past participle unboned)
present singular third person unbones · participle present unboning · participle past unboned · past unboned
- obsoleteTo twist about, as if boneless.
writhing and unboning their clergy limbs to all the antic and dishonest gestures of Trinculoes
1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC
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