skeleton

the skeleton of a report.

the postcranial skeleton of an animal.

there was only a skeleton staff on duty.

she was no more than a skeleton at the end.

the concrete skeleton of an unfinished building.

The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.

The block is still just a skeleton of girders.

The police unearthed a skeleton in his garden.

the skeleton is formed of a corneous substance.

A long illness made a skeleton out of him.

a tottering skeleton of a horse; a tottery old man.

His boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.

the chapel was stripped to a skeleton of its former self.

Over Christmas we have a skeleton staff to deal with emergencies.

The new presidential candidate is certainly popular, but does he have any skeletons in the closet?

Despite the fact that skeletons seem mischievous or imbecilic, they are nothing to scoff at.

fin skeletons In unpaired precaudal fins, the basal plates and radials;