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Cutaneous :: Cutaneous (a.) Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration..

Lambskin :: Lambskin (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively..

Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..

Sailfish :: Sailfish (n.) The basking, or liver, shark..

Skinned :: Skinned (imp. & p. p.) of Ski.

Friskiness :: Friskiness (n.) State or quality of being frisky.

Epidermis :: Epidermis (v. t.) The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis..

Skinbound :: Skinbound (a.) Having the skin adhering closely and rigidly to the flesh; hidebound.

Barebone :: Barebone (n.) A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.

Wem :: Wem (n.) An indolent, encysted tumor of the skin; especially, a sebaceous cyst..

Cordwain :: Cordwain (n.) A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like..

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

Corrugator :: Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Interrogative :: Interrogative (n.) A word used in asking questions; as, who? which? why?.

Gamashes :: Gamashes (n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing..

Film :: Film (v. t.) To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.

Shamoying :: Shamoying (n.) A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning..

Sheepskin :: Sheepskin (n.) A diploma; -- so called because usually written or printed on parchment prepared from the skin of the sheep.

Buckskin :: Buckskin (n.) A person clothed in buckskin, particularly an American soldier of the Revolutionary war..

Imbosking :: Imbosking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbos.

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