skeleton : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the part of the skeleton that includes the pectoral girdle and the pelvic girdle and the upper and lower limbs
  

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• noun the part of the skeleton that includes the skull and spinal column and sternum and ribs
  

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

Webster 1913

• noun pantropical epiphytic or terrestrial whisk fern with usually dull yellow branches and minute leaves; America; Japan; Australia
  Psilotum nudum.
  

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• noun a scandal that is kept secret
  skeleton in the closet; skeleton.
  
  • there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet

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• noun a scandal that is kept secret
  skeleton in the closet; skeleton.
  
  • there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet

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• noun a passkey with much of the bit filed away so that it can open different locks
  

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• 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.

Webster 1913

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

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

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

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• noun small amphipod crustacean having a grotesque form suggestive of the praying mantis; found chiefly on seaweed
  

WordNet

• (Zoöl.), a small crustacean of the genus Caprella. See Illust. under Læmodipoda.

Webster 1913

Splanch`no-skel"e*ton noun

Etymology

Gr. an entrail + E. skeleton.

Definitions

1. (Anat.) That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

Webster 1913