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Skeleton   /skˈɛlətən/   Listen
Skeleton

noun
1.
Something reduced to its minimal form.  "The bare skeleton of a novel"
2.
A scandal that is kept secret.  Synonyms: skeleton in the closet, skeleton in the cupboard.
3.
The hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal.  Synonyms: frame, skeletal system, systema skeletale.
4.
The internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape.  Synonyms: frame, skeletal frame, underframe.



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"Skeleton" Quotes from Famous Books



... glance the red-brown skin drawn so tightly over his face made him resemble a mummy more than a living being, while his worn canvas and skin garments clung so tightly to him that his bodily aspect was horribly suggestive of a clothed skeleton. ...
— The Peril Finders • George Manville Fenn
... russet, the forests are black, each tree seems a skeleton; all nature, save the evergreen, looks dead. But our mountains of firs, our hills of pine, our groves of cedar, our thickets of holly, our cliffs crowned with laurel, full of life, and covered with unchangeable verdure, keep eternally fresh and beautiful. ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... His eyes leaped from moundlike piles of tailings, the powdery crush spit out by the concentrating mills, to boulder-like heaps of rocks that had been wheeled away to save the teeth of the mills, and his ears turned distraught from the groaning clank of unwieldy iron tubs, swinging up through skeleton shafts, to the sputtering plunk-plunk of drill engines and the ...
— Sally of Missouri • R. E. Young
... littered all over with papers and official looking documents. The walls of the room were lined with shelves, on which were glass jars, retorts, countless bottles and many appliances of surgical science. A skeleton was propped against the mantelpiece. The atmosphere seemed heavy with the odour ...
— Anna the Adventuress • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... have been made from time to time at Compton Winyates. Not many years ago a bricked-up space was found in a wall containing a perfect skeleton!—at another an antique box full of papers belonging to the past history of the family (the Comptons) was discovered in a secret cavity ...
— Secret Chambers and Hiding Places • Allan Fea


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