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.

the hard structure (bones and cartilages) that provides a frame for the body of an animal

the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"