Skeleton

1. a. 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.
2. n. The bony and cartilaginous framework which supports the soft parts of a vertebrate animal.
3. n. The more or less firm or hardened framework of an invertebrate animal.
4. n. A very thin or lean person.
5. n. The framework of anything; the principal parts that support the rest, but without the appendages.
6. n. The heads and outline of a literary production, especially of a sermon.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.