Definition of peel

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Peel (v. i.) To lose the skin, bark, or rind; to come off, as the skin, bark, or rind does; -- often used with an adverb; as, the bark peels easily or readily..

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Zest :: Zest (n.) A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc..
Pill :: Pill (n.) The peel or skin.
Peele :: Peele (n.) A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc..
Rind :: Rind (n.) The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell..
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel..
Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel..
Curacoa :: Curacoa (n.) A liqueur, or cordial, flavored with orange peel, cinnamon, and mace; -- first made at the island of Curaccao..
Peelhouse :: Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.
Desquamate :: Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases..
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection..
Pill :: Pill (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder..
Delibrate :: Delibrate (v. t.) To strip off the bark; to peel.
Enucleate :: Enucleate (v. t.) To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell..
Pill :: Pill (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
Peeled :: Peeled (imp. & p. p.) of Pee.
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) One who peels or strips.
Bark :: Bark (v. t.) To strip the bark from; to peel.
Rheeboc :: Rheeboc (n.) The peele.
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