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SKIN, n.

1. The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide. The cuticle is very thin and insensible; the cutis is thicker and very sensible.

2. A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.

3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language

4. The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

SKIN, v.t.

1. To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.

2. To cover with skin.

3. to cover superficially.

SKIN, v.i. To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.



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SKIN, n.

1. The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide. The cuticle is very thin and insensible; the cutis is thicker and very sensible.

2. A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.

3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language

4. The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

SKIN, v.t.

1. To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.

2. To cover with skin.

3. to cover superficially.

SKIN, v.i. To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.


SKIN, n.1 [Sax. scin; Sw. skinn; Dan. skind, a skin; G. schinden, to flay; Ir. scann, a membrane; W. ysgin, a robe made of skin, a pelisse, said to be from cin, a spread or covering. But in Welsh, cèn is skin, peel or rind. This may signify a covering, or a peel, from stripping.]

  1. The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide. The cuticle is very thin and insensible; the cutis is thicker and very sensible. Harvey.
  2. A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.
  3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language. – L'Estrange.
  4. The hark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruit and plants.

SKIN, v.i.

To be covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.


SKIN, v.t.

  1. To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel. – Ellis.
  2. To cover with skin. – Dryden.
  3. To cover superficially. – Addison.

Skin
  1. The external membranous integument of an animal.

    * In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells which are constantly growing and multiplying in the deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial, layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis, cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of connective tissue.

  2. To strip off the skin or hide of] to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
  3. To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
  4. The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
  5. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

    It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak.

  6. To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

    [College Cant, U.S.]
  7. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.

    "Skins of wine." Tennyson.
  8. To strip of money or property; to cheat.

    [Slang]
  9. The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
  10. That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

    Totten. (b)
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Skin

SKIN, noun

1. The natural covering of animal bodies, consisting of the cuticle or scarf-skin, the rete mucosum, and the cutis or hide. The cuticle is very thin and insensible; the cutis is thicker and very sensible.

2. A hide; a pelt; the skin of an animal separated from the body, whether green, dry or tanned.

3. The body; the person; in ludicrous language

4. The bark or husk of a plant; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.

SKIN, verb transitive

1. To strip off the skin or hide; to flay; to peel.

2. To cover with skin

3. to cover superficially.

SKIN, verb intransitive To be covered with skin; as a wound skins over.

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