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); Look at you--haggard, losing weight every day, poring over
papers, scheming, planning, writing articles, pouring out the great gift of your
life twice as fast as you need—Nobody's Man;
• (pinched)- compressed; contracted; narrowed; The waiting room chairs
were molded plastic and about as comfortable as a pinched nerve. — One
False Move;
• (skeletal)- of, pertaining to, or like a skeleton; Tiny mountains rose in the
background, and skeletal trees burst from the earth like mad, undead horrors.
— Kaz the Minotaur;
• (wasted)- physically or psychologically exhausted; debilitated, (
); But by this time his body was wasted, his steps were tottering and his
head bent. — From the Bottom Up;
• (lanky)- ungracefully thin and rawboned; bony; gaunt, ( ); Tall
and lanky, already packing on muscle from hard ranch work, he'd stood
under her mother's backyard tree;
• (lank)- (of plants) unduly long and slender, (( ) ,
); Among the newcomers was a lank, angular-
featured frontiersman who answered to the name of Sam Houston. — The
Reign of Andrew Jackson;
• (wispy)-a handful or small bundle of straw, hay, or the like, ( ;
; ; ); The beard was irregular and wispy,
startling white against his sun-darkened skin. — AnalogSF,Mar2004;
cadaver : carrion
• (cadaver)- a dead body, esp. a human body to be dissected; corpse, ( ;
; ); The mutilated cadaver was taken away to the new morgue and put
in a cold trunk;
• (carrion)- dead and putrefying flesh; Many animals revel in the smell and
flavour of carrion, and even of manure, which they devour. — More Science
From an Easy Chair;
bony = osseous^ ossify = petrify : consolidate > consolidation
• (bony)- of or like bone, ( ; ); The little, plump hand was lean
and bony, and wrinkles usurped the alabaster brow. — The Memories of Fifty
Years;
• skinny; emaciated;
• (osseous)- composed of, containing, or resembling bone; bony, ( ;
); The scapula, covered by thick carneous masses, does not lie in the