Existing in skeletal or outline form.

In sense 1, as skeleton-chief, skeleton-hand, etc.

Of or belonging to, forming or formed by, forming part of, or resembling, a skeleton.

Pertaining to or resembling a skeleton; skeletal.

= skeleton, n. compounds 1; also, skeleton-like.

reduced to a skeleton; drawn up in outline; also, possessing or having developed a skeleton.