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bones: a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance

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corpse collapse

cadaver collapse: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

ashes collapse

corpus delicti collapse: the body of evidence that constitute the offence; the objective proof that a crime has been committed (sometimes mistakenly thought to refer to the body of a homicide victim)

mummy collapse: a body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt)

mummification collapse: embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as a mummy; a condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape"

relics collapse

late lamented collapse

torso collapse: the body excluding the head and neck and limbs; "they moved their arms and legs and bodies"

soma collapse: personification of a sacred intoxicating drink used in Vedic ritual; leafless East Indian vine; its sour milky juice formerly used to make an intoxicating drink

lantern jaws collapse

carrion collapse: the dead and rotting body of an animal; unfit for human food

carcass collapse

bean pole collapse

deceased collapse

hang off collapse

bird cage collapse

dice collapse: small cubes with 1 to 6 spots on the faces; used to generate random numbers; play dice

scrag collapse: the lean end of a neck of veal; lean end of the neck

scrap iron collapse: iron to be melted again and reworked

departed collapse

skeleton collapse: the internal supporting structure that gives an artifact its shape; "the building has a steel skeleton"; a scandal that is kept secret; "there must be a skeleton somewhere in that family's closet"; something reduced to its minimal form; "the battalion was a mere skeleton of its former self"; "the bare skeleton of a novel"

marimba collapse: a percussion instrument with wooden bars tuned to produce a chromatic scale and with resonators; played with small mallets

glockenspiel collapse: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of graduated metal bars mounted on a frame and played with small hammers

maraca collapse

xylophone collapse

vibraphone collapse: a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone but having metal bars and rotating disks in the resonators that produce a vibrato sound

clappers collapse

castanets collapse

celesta collapse: a musical instrument consisting of graduated steel plates that are struck by hammers activated by a keyboard

remains collapse: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner"

cockles of the heart collapse

percussive collapse: involving percussion or featuring percussive instruments; "percussive music"

stick at collapse

physician collapse

hulk collapse: a ship that has been wrecked and abandoned

ivories collapse

offal collapse: viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal often considered inedible by humans

garbage collapse: a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage"; food that is discarded (as from a kitchen)

ivory collapse: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses

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