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
having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist" 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
Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. an old man with a bony face and white hair He poked a long bony finger in Billy's chest