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Damasking :: Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damas.

Parchment :: Parchment (n.) The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum..

Buskin :: Buskin (n.) A similar covering for the foot and leg, made with very thick soles, to give an appearance of elevation to the stature; -- worn by tragic actors in ancient Greece and Rome. Used as a symbol of tragedy, or the tragic drama, as distinguished from comedy..

Woolward :: Woolward (adv.) In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.

Macula :: Macula (n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb..

Hair :: Hair (n.) The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole of the body..

Serpigo :: Serpigo (n.) A dry, scaly eruption on the skin; especially, a ringworm..

Musculocutaneous :: Musculocutaneous (a.) Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve..

Request :: Request (n.) The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty.

Perspire :: Perspire (v. t.) To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores.

Irritate :: Irritate (n.) To make morbidly excitable, or oversensitive; to fret; as, the skin is irritated by friction; to irritate a wound by a coarse bandage..

Chigre :: Chigre (n.) A species of flea (Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger..

Scrofula :: Scrofula (n.) A constitutional disease, generally hereditary, especially manifested by chronic enlargement and cheesy degeneration of the lymphatic glands, particularly those of the neck, and marked by a tendency to the development of chronic intractable inflammations of the skin, mucous membrane, bones, joints, and other parts, and by a diminution in the power of resistance to disease or injury and the capacity for recovery. Scrofula is now generally held to be tuberculous in character, and may

Icteritous :: Icteritous (a.) Yellow; of the color of the skin when it is affected by the jaundice.

Erythematic :: Erythematic (a.) Characterized by, or causing, a morbid redness of the skin; relating to erythema..

Psoriasis :: Psoriasis (n.) A cutaneous disease, characterized by imbricated silvery scales, affecting only the superficial layers of the skin..

Fur :: Fur (n.) The skins of certain wild animals with the fur; peltry; as, a cargo of furs..

Mosquito :: Mosquito (n.) Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic..

Wound :: Wound (n.) A hurt or injury caused by violence; specifically, a breach of the skin and flesh of an animal, or in the substance of any creature or living thing; a cut, stab, rent, or the like..

Goatskin :: Goatskin (n.) The skin of a goat, or leather made from it..

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