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noun. The internal structure that protects and supports the soft organs, tissues, and other parts of a vertebrate organism, and is composed of bone and cartilage or, in certain animals, cartilage alone.

noun. The hard external structure that supports, protects, or contains the body of many invertebrates, such as mollusks, crustaceans, and corals, and certain vertebrates, such as turtles.

noun. A supporting structure or framework, as of a building.

noun. An outline or sketch.

noun. Something reduced to its basic or minimal parts.

noun. One that is very thin or emaciated.

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noun. A sport in which a person glides down an icy track head-first lying on one's stomach on a compact, simple sled that lacks steering or brakes.

noun. The sled used in such a sport.

adjective. Of, relating to, or resembling a skeleton.

adjective. Reduced to the basic or minimal parts or members.

adjective. Of or relating to the sport of skeleton.

idiom. (skeleton in (one's) closet) A source of shame or disgrace, as in a family, that is kept secret.

To skeletonize.

noun. In anatomy, the dry bones of the body taken together; hence, in anatomy and zoology, some or any hard part, or the set of hard parts together, which form a support, scaffold, or framework of the body, sustaining, inclosing, or protecting soft parts or vital organs; connective tissue, especially when hard, as when fibrous, cuticular, corneous, cartilaginous, osseous, chitinous, calcareous, or silicious; an endoskeleton, exoskeleton, dermoskeleton, scleroskeleton, splanchnoskeleton, etc. (See these words.)

noun. The supporting framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

noun. An outline or rough draft of any kind; specifically, the outline of a literary performance: as, the skeleton of a sermon.

noun. Milit., a regiment whose numbers have become reduced by casualties, etc.

noun. A very lean or much emaciated person; a mere shadow of a man.

noun. In printing, an exceedingly thin or condensed form of light-faced type.

Of or pertaining to a skeleton; in the form of a skeleton; skeletal; lean.

Consisting of a mere framework, outline, or combination of supporting parts: as, a skeleton leaf; a skeleton crystal.

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noun. The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

noun. The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.

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noun. A very thin or lean person.

noun. The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.

noun. The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

adjective. Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything

adjective. a bill or draft made out in blank as to the amount or payee, but signed by the acceptor.

adjective. a key with nearly the whole substance of the web filed away, to adapt it to avoid the wards of a lock; a master key; -- used for opening locks to which it has not been especially fitted.

adjective. a leaf from which the pulpy part has been removed by chemical means, the fibrous part alone remaining.

adjective. a proof of a print or engraving, with the inscription outlined in hair strokes only, such proofs being taken before the engraving is finished.

adjective. a regiment which has its complement of officers, but in which there are few enlisted men.

adjective. a small crustacean of the genus Caprella. See Illust. under Læmodipoda.

noun. The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.

noun. A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.

noun. A very thin person.

noun. A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first (compare luge). See Wikipedia:Skeleton (sport)

noun. A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.

noun. The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.

noun. An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton. See Wikipedia:Skeleton (undead)

noun. The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.

verb. to reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize

verb. to minimize

noun. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape

noun. a scandal that is kept secret

noun. something reduced to its minimal form