The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
A very thin or lean person.
The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
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.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. Aldous Huxley
There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. Wilson Mizner
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. Henry Miller
skeleton in Afrikaans is geraamte
skeleton in Dutch is skelet, gebeente, geraamte
skeleton in French is squelette, ossature
skeleton in Italian is scheletro
skeleton in Norwegian is skjelett
skeleton in Portuguese is esqueleto
skeleton in Spanish is esqueleto
skeleton in Swedish is benstomme, skelett
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