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skeletonize (medicine) and Phillis (iou)


skeletonize (medicine)


skeletonize


To prepare a skeleton of; also, to reduce, as a leaf, to its skeleton.

Origin: Skeletonised; Skeletonizing.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Phillis (iou)



Phillis noun. Chiefly poet. M16.
[Latin Phyllis female name, from Greek Phullis female name (= foliage), from phullon leaf; the substitution of i for Latin y is perh. due to association with Greek philos dear, beloved.]
(A name for) a pretty country girl or a sweetheart (cf. PHILANDER noun 1). Also (after Milton), a pretty, neat, or dexterous female servant.