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Definition of Skeletonising
1. skeletonise [v] - See also: skeletonise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skeletonising
Literary usage of Skeletonising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Girl's Own Outdoor Book, Containing Practical Help to Girls on Matters by Charles Peters (1889)
"The various methods of skeletonising all aim at the same object, that of dissolving
or decomposing the fleshy parts, leaving only the fibre and filaments. ..."
2. Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener and Country Gentlemen (1874)
"THE present is a favourable time of the year for skeletonising, woody fibre being
sufficiently hard. Procure an earthen pan holding a gallon or more, ..."
3. The Review of Applied Entomology by Commonwealth Institute of Entomology, Imperial Bureau of Entomology (1916)
"In Trinidad, B. sophorae, L., does a great deal of damage by skeletonising the
leaves [see this Review, Ser. A, ii, p. 569 and iii, pp. 175, 368 and 591]. ..."
4. Cellulose: An Outline of the Chemistry of the Structural Elements of Plants by Charles Frederick Cross, Edward John Bevan, Clayton Beadle (1895)
"We may cite in illustration the disintegration of leaf parenchyma in the well
known process of ' skeletonising." Leaves of the poplar, pear, &c. are covered ..."
5. Reminiscences Chiefly of Oriel College and the Oxford Movement by Thomas Mozley (1882)
"Long before Simeon was skeletonising our sermons, churchwardens were recasting
our bells, and doing it very well too. They made mistakes sometimes, ..."
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