Definition of skin

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Skin (v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal..

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Velvet :: Velvet (n.) The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
Poake :: Poake (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc..
Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A red speck upon the skin, produced either by the extravasation of blood, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards..
Tegument :: Tegument (n.) Especially, the covering of a living body, or of some part or organ of such a body; skin; hide..
Grafting :: Grafting (n.) The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.
Obelisking :: Obelisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Obelis.
Spoilable :: Spoil (n.) The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal..
Crustific :: Crustific (a.) Producing or forming a crust or skin.
Frolic :: Frolic (a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry..
Epispastic :: Epispastic (a.) Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
Lansquenet :: Lansquenet (n.) A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet..
Anasarca :: Anasarca (n.) Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin..
Skinless :: Skinless (a.) Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit..
Soak :: Soak (v. t.) To draw in by the pores, or through small passages; as, a sponge soaks up water; the skin soaks in moisture..
Whitlow :: Whitlow (a.) An inflammation of the fingers or toes, generally of the last phalanx, terminating usually in suppuration. The inflammation may occupy any seat between the skin and the bone, but is usually applied to a felon or inflammation of the periosteal structures of the bone..
Muskiness :: Muskiness (n.) The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
Woolward :: Woolward (adv.) In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin.
Humor :: Humor (n.) A vitiated or morbid animal fluid, such as often causes an eruption on the skin..
Chica :: Chica (n.) A red coloring matter. extracted from the Bignonia Chica, used by some tribes of South American Indians to stain the skin..
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..
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