jocularly as a type of thinness or leanness.

A skeleton; (hence) a thin or emaciated person. Formerly also: †a body for dissection; a representation or model of the skeleton (obsolete).

In extended use: a very thin person. Cf. as thin as a rake at phrases.

A lean scraggy person.

A lean person or animal. (In depreciatory use.) Cf. crag, n.3 (which occurs only in Udall).

A mean or paltry fellow; a starved or thin-faced person. Also attributive.

A starved person or animal; a person who is habitually underfed or hungry; a person who is emaciated for lack of nourishment.

A lanky, lazy, worthless, or despicable person. Obsolete.

A very pale or emaciated person; a person who is not at full strength. Cf. the ghost of a person's (or thing's) former self at phrases 2b.

A joint of pork cut from nearer the rump than the spare-rib, so called ‘because the bones thereof are made bald and bare of flesh’ (Minsheu)…

a lean, skinny person.

A case in which a bow is kept. In 16–17th centuries applied humorously to a lean starveling, a ‘bag of bones’.

In extended use and figurative. An emaciated or withered living body, a walking skeleton. Cf. anatomy, n. 8. Now English regional.

= sneakbill, n.

A thin-bellied, lean, or starved-looking person; a starveling. Also as adj.: = thin-gutted, adj.

A living being reduced to ‘skin and bone’; a withered or emaciated creature, a ‘walking skeleton’.

A weak, sickly, or emaciated person. Cf. shargar, n.

transferred. A very thin, lean, or emaciated person or animal.

A very thin or gaunt person or animal, a mere skeleton. Also in plural: Death personified. Now rare.

an individual with an extremely emaciated frame.

‘A lean, gaunt, ill-favoured person or animal’ (G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk.).

A person whose appearance causes ridicule; a lean, gaunt figure; one who resembles a scarecrow in his dress, ‘a guy’.

Chiefly in rickle of bones. A very lean person or animal; a skeleton.

A weak or emaciated person or animal; (also) a short bow-legged person.

A skeleton. Now chiefly in extended use: an emaciated person or animal (esp. a horse).

figurative. A person of slender or thin figure.

bag of bones: an emaciated living being. the whole bag of tricks: every expedient, everything (in allusion to the fable of ‘the Fox and the Cat’)…

a contemptuous or familiar term for a thin or withered person, who has little flesh on his bones.

A (humorously) depreciative name for: a skinny person or occasionally animal.

A jocular word for: a person. Also: a thin person. slang (originally U.S.).

A very slim or thin person.

colloquial. A skinny person.

An underweight person.

One who is asthenic.

A person with the lean body-build in which the physical structures developed from the ectodermal layer of the embryo, i.e. the skin and the nervous…

Scottish. = skinnymalink, n.

In extended use. slang. A thin person.