LekhoriLekhoriThe system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
At the foot of a pretty big pine, and involved in a green creeper, which had even partly lifted some of the smaller bones, a human skeleton lay, with a few shreds of clothing, on the ground.
An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
She dressed up as a skeleton for Halloween.
A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
Lugers, who slide feet first and reach the highest speeds, experience some of the same forces, but seem to suffer far fewer concussion-like symptoms than bobsled and skeleton athletes do, probably because a support strap often prevents their heads from banging into the ice.
To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
To minimize.
From New Latin sceleton, from Ancient Greek σκελετόν (skeletón), the neuter of σκελετός (skeletós, “dried up, withered, dried body, parched, mummy”), from σκέλλω (skéllō, “dry, dry up, make dry, parch...
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