Definition of Bony

• 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"
• composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue"
• having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish"