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单词 skelet
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skeletn.

Forms: Also 1500s skelette, 1600s scelet.
Etymology: < older French (16th cent.) sc-, sk-, squelete (also sch- , squelet , etc.; modern French squelette ), or Greek σκελετός, σκελετόν: see skeleton n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈskelet.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. A skeleton. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [noun]
bonesOE
notomy1487
rames1497
charnel1562
skelet1565
skeleton1578
anatomy1591
atomy1597
cadavera1682
bonework1753
osteology1854
scaffolding1886
1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Forma ossea,..a skelette.
1603 P. Holland in tr. Plutarch Morals Explan. Words Scelet..is taken also for a dead carcasse of man or woman, represented with the bones onely, and ligaments.
1621 S. Ward Life of Faith v. 24 For what should I cast away speech vpon scelets and skulles, carnall men I meane.
1707 in M. P. Brown Suppl. Dict. Decisions Court of Session (1826) IV. 673 The Lords thought this decreet had not so much as the visage and scelet of a decreet.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) ii. 146 The Skelet now hath got his Breast-Plate on.
a1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Cornwall) She's nothing but a walking skelet.
2. A mummy. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > embalmed
skelet1603
mummy1615
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 328 To bring in place..at their feasts a Scelet, that is to say, a drie and withered anatomie of a dead man.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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