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nything; 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.

See Exoskeleton.

ny, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.

A chitinous structure which supports the gill in some invertebrates.

That part of the skeleton which is developed in tendons, ligaments, and aponeuroses.

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

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.…

United by, or provided with, articulations; jointed; as, an articulated skeleton.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

hich, articulates; as: (a) One who enunciates distinctly. (b) One who prepares and mounts skeletons. (c) An instrument to cure stammering.

A skeleton. [Ludicrous] Shak.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, blood and bone.

The framework or skeleton upon which a regiment is to be formed; the officers of a regiment forming the staff. [Written also cader.]

A skeleton frame to limit the motion of a loose piece, as a ball valve.

lar ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.