1. skeleton - Noun
2. skeleton - Adjective
3. skeleton - Verb
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryRigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame. Virginia Woolf
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before. Audre Lorde
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. George Bernard Shaw
The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks. Henry Miller
There is a skeleton in every house. Latin Proverb
Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. Traditional Proverb