Definition of skin

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Skin (v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially..

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Formication :: Formication (n.) A sensation resembling that made by the creeping of ants on the skin.
Skinking :: Skinking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Skin.
Flawter :: Flawter (v. t.) To scrape o/ pare, as a skin..
Cast :: Cast (n.) That which is throw out or off, shed, or ejected; as, the skin of an insect, the refuse from a hawk's stomach, the excrement of a earthworm..
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..
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..
Imbosking :: Imbosking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imbos.
Skink :: Skink (v. t.) To draw or serve, as drink..
Intertrigo :: Intertrigo (n.) A rubbing or chafing of the skin; especially, an abrasion or excoriation of the skin between folds, as in fat or neglected children..
Corrugator :: Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.
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..
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) A mop for cleaning the bore of a cannon after a discharge. It consists of a cylinder of wood, covered with sheepskin with the wool on, or cloth with a heavy looped nap, and having a handle, or staff..
Siskin :: Siskin (n.) A small green and yellow European finch (Spinus spinus, or Carduelis spinus); -- called also aberdevine..
Scrow :: Scrow (n.) A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
Rheumides :: Rheumides (n. pl.) The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.
Shoder :: Shoder (n.) A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.
Erubescency :: Erubescency (n.) The act of becoming red; redness of the skin or surface of anything; a blushing.
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..
Fishskin :: Fishskin (n.) See Ichthyosis.
Thin-skinned :: Thin-skinned (a.) Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable..
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