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Pertaining to the skeleton.

Forming or producing parts of the skeleton.

That part of anatomy which treats of the skeleton; also, a treatise on the skeleton.

ything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. The great skeleton of the world. Sir M. Hale.

To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.

Not capable of being slaked.

Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.

A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.

A small or secondary spike; especially, one of the ultimate parts of the in florescence of grasses. See Illust. of Quaking grass.

That part of the skeleton connected with the sense organs and the viscera. Owen.

A figure composed of three branches, usually curved, radiating from a center, as the figure composed of three human legs, with bent knees, which has long been used as a badge or symbol of Sicily and of the Isle of Man.

Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles. Mivart.

A small farm; -- so called as requiring but one yoke of oxen to till it. [Prov. Eng.]

The substance rubbed off. Berkeley.

o perform the process of abstraction. [R.] I own myself able to abstract in one sense. Berkeley.

al, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

ve; dogmatic. [Obs.] J. Taylor. Lysicles was a little by the affirmative air of Crito. Berkeley.

prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

A skeleton; anything anatomized or dissected, or which has the appearance of being so. The anatomy of a little child, representing all parts thereof, is accounted a greater rarity than the skeleton of a man in full stature. Fuller. They brought one Pinch, a hungry, lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. Shak.…