n. - The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
n. - The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
n. - A very thin or lean person.
n. - The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
n. - The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
a. - Consisting of, or resembling, a skeleton; consisting merely of the framework or outlines; having only certain leading features of anything; as, a skeleton sermon; a skeleton crystal.