Vocabulary : Skeleton to Sken

Skeleton : The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal. ;; The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal. ;; A very thin or lean person. ;; The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages. ;; The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon. ;; 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.
Skeletonize : To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.
Skeletonized : of Skeletonize
Skeletonizer : Any small moth whose larva eats the parenchyma of leaves, leaving the skeleton; as, the apple-leaf skeletonizer.
Skeletonizing : of Skeletonize
Skellum : A scoundrel.
Skelly : To squint. ;; A squint.
Skelp : To form into skelp, as a plate or bar of iron by rolling; also, to bend round (a skelp) in tube making. ;; A blow; a smart stroke. ;; A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain. ;; To strike; to slap. ;; A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed.
Skelter : To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry; -- with away or off.
Sken : To squint.
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