Index of English words, starting with "sk"

(1) - Skeleton (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.
(2) - Skeleton (n.) The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.
(3) - Skeleton (n.) The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
(4) - Skeleton (n.) A very thin or lean person.
(5) - Skeleton (n.) The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
(6) - Skeleton (n.) The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.

(1) - Skeletonize (v. t.) To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.

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