From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
bony
adj 1: 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" [syn: bony,
cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched,
skeletal, wasted]
2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn:
osseous, osteal, bony]
3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad
fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney]
[ant: boneless]