subs. (old).—A skeleton; a BAG OF BONES (q.v.); an ATOMY (q.v.). OTTOMISED = anatomised.
1738. SWIFT, Polite Conversation (Conv. i). Lady Answ. Why, my lord, she was handsome in her time; but she can’t eat her cake and have her cake. I hear she grown a meer OTOMY.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v. OTTOMY. You’ll be scragged, OTTOMISED, and grin in a glass case, You’ll be hanged, anatomised, and your skeleton kept in a glass case.
1834. W. H. AINSWORTH, Rookwood, III. ii. Is that Peter Bradley? asked Sybil. Ay, you may well ask whether that old dried-up OTOMY … be kith and kin of … Luke, said Turpin.
