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 (v. t.) To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To plunder; to pillage; to rob.
Peel :: 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..
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..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip or tear off; to remove by stripping, as the skin of an animal, the bark of a tree, etc..
Peel :: Peel (n.) The skin or rind; as, the peel of an orange..
Peelhouse :: Peelhouse (n.) See 1st Peel.
Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Desquamate :: Desquamate (v. i.) To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin in certain diseases..
Bobby :: Bobby (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler..
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..
Peeled :: Peeled (imp. & p. p.) of Pee.
Decorticate :: Decorticate (v. t.) To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull..
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A pillager.
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..
Peel :: Peel (v. t.) To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange..
Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons, nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a confect; a confection..
Rheeboc :: Rheeboc (n.) The peele.
Peeler :: Peeler (n.) A nickname for a policeman; -- so called from Sir Robert Peel.
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