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Definition of Skeletonise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeletonise
Literary usage of Skeletonise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Floral decorations for the dwelling house: A Practical Guide to the Home by Annie Hassard (1875)
"LEAF PRINTING FROM NATURE—HOW TO skeletonise LEAVES. 'HE following paper, on the
subject of " Leaf Printing," appeared in the pages of "The Garden," and, ..."
2. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"... the larvae being found underneath the bark of oak; Chat CO ides aurata,
Marsh., the adults of which skeletonise the leaves of willows and aspen; ..."
3. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1885)
"For a payment of forty roubles I induced the chief of the village to skeletonise
four of the half putrefied carcases of the sea-bear left lying on the grass ..."
4. The Voyage of the Vega Round Asia and Europe: With a Historical Review of by Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld (1881)
"For a payment of forty roubles I induced the chief of the village to skeletonise
four of the half putrefied carcases of the sea-bear left lying on the grass ..."
5. The History of Mankind by Friedrich Ratzel (1896)
"A further variation is to skeletonise the body and preserve the bones. The aborigines
of Cape York take the bones out of the grave after some months, ..."
6. The American Flower Garden by Neltje Blanchan, Leonard Barron (1909)
"For the slugs which skeletonise the rose leaves use powdered white hellebore.
Dissolve one heaping tablespoonful of the poison in a pailful of boiling water ..."
7. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1895)
"We can easily skeletonise leaves and fr,uits artificially, but in the alkekengi
this is done slowly, and apparently by the action of the atmosphere on the ..."
8. In a Gloucestershire Garden by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe (1896)
"We can easily skeletonise leaves and fruits artificially, but in the alkekengi
this is done slowly, and apparently by the action of the atmosphere on the ..."
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