WordNet
n. the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton" [syn: skeleton, frame, underframe]
Usage examples of "skeletal frame".
It wrapped its body in its wings, which blocked the searing heat temporarily, although soon the wings would be burned husks embracing a skeletal frame.
Next, the lightning formed an intricate network of arches that curved down into the earth from the tower, forming the skeletal frame of a dome.
This time, the mummified wing membranes were folded down around the skeletal frame, and the whole thing was crouched on a low roost bar.
Bones pressed out against skin shrunk tight against it, the skeletal frame hunched forward like a cat at hunt.
The scarlet robes he wore fell in folds about his skeletal frame and spread like a pool of blood on the floor about his chair.
Newton had told them that the condition of the skeletal frame wrapped in plastic indicated it was that of a young adult who, as far as he could tell, had perfect teeth.
Kimba Rimer's skeletal frame was all but buried in a gray serape lit with faint bands of orange.
Dehydrated vital organs collapse inward beneath a powerful skeletal frame.
She was a Musgrave and common, but still, he had seethed with jealousy, imagining her in Father's bedthe old skeletal frame of Hugh Graham rutting on her.
The rich maroon color of his flesh became tinted with gray, even as his once-muscular physique appeared to liquefy and evaporate, leaving behind a skeletal frame barely covered by stringy tendons and dry brittle skin.
His dark skin was sallow now, and his always-rumpled suit even more rumpled as it hung from his skeletal frame.
After bone and chitin armour had rained to earth, when all that remained was a thin, skeletal frame drifting at the mercy of the winds, finally the bladders had been drained and the empty rag-thing allowed to spiral down to oblivion.
The derro's skeletal frame had not fleshed out after his long, hard-lived enslavement by the drow.
Her once supple, voluptuous form had grown emaciated with shocking speed, until he had to force himself to look at the skeletal frame beneath the sheet when he cleaned her from where she had dirtied herself.