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).

单词	skelet
释义	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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1565
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