Definition of skin

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Skin (n.) 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..

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Huskiness :: Huskiness (n.) The state of being husky.
Sweat :: Sweat (v. i.) To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire.
Catechise :: Catechise (v. t.) To instruct by asking questions, receiving answers, and offering explanations and corrections, -- esp. in regard to points of religious faith..
Perspire :: Perspire (v. t.) To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.
Rubefacient :: Rubefacient (n.) An external application which produces redness of the skin.
Supplicant :: Supplicant (a.) Entreating; asking submissively.
Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum..
Dicker :: Dicker (n.) The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves..
Scrofulide :: Scrofulide (n.) Any affection of the skin dependent on scrofula.
Dogskin :: Dogskin (n.) The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively..
Sward :: Sward (n.) Skin; covering.
Dermis :: Dermis (n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix..
Circumcise :: Circumcise (v. t.) To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females..
Stripe :: Stripe (n.) A long, narrow discoloration of the skin made by the blow of a lash, rod, or the like..
Grafting :: Grafting (n.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
Ichthyosis :: Ichthyosis (n.) A disease in which the skin is thick, rough, and scaly; -- called also fishskin..
Beefeater :: Beefeater (n.) An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Two species are known..
Chest :: Chest (n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth..
Husking :: Husking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hus.
Whisking :: Whisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Whis.
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