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Taxidermic :: Taxidermic (a.) Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.

Epispastic :: Epispastic (n.) An external application to the skin, which produces a puriform or serous discharge by exciting inflammation; a vesicatory..

Aber-de-vine :: Aber-de-vine (n.) The European siskin (Carduelis spinus), a small green and yellow finch, related to the goldfinch..

Excoriation :: Excoriation (n.) The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion..

Duskiness :: Duskiness (n.) The state of being dusky.

Exanthema :: Exanthema (n.) An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever..

Chap :: Chap (v. t.) To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

Emphractic :: Emphractic (a.) Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

Flense :: Flense (v. t.) To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc..

Chlorosis :: Chlorosis (n.) The green sickness; an anaemic disease of young women, characterized by a greenish or grayish yellow hue of the skin, weakness, palpitation, etc..

Frisking :: Frisking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fris.

Exuviability :: Exuviability (n.) Capability of shedding the skin periodically.

Pigskin :: Pigskin (n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle..

Orbit :: Orbit (n.) The skin which surrounds the eye of a bird.

Bilimbing :: Bilimbing (n.) The berries of two East Indian species of Averrhoa, of the Oxalideae or Sorrel family. They are very acid, and highly esteemed when preserved or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases..

Dakir :: Dakir (n.) A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs..

Trionyx :: Trionyx (n.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle..

Beg :: Beg (v. i.) To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms..

Black :: Black (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races..

Ringworm :: Ringworm (n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton)..

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