Skeleton(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.
Skeleton(n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
Skeleton(n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
Skeleton(n.) A very thin or lean person.
Skeleton(n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
Skeleton(n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
Skeletonize(v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
Skeletonized(imp. & p. p.) of Skeletonize
Skeletonizer(n.) Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Skeletonizing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skeletonize

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