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Skin

noun

A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch. Synonyms: cutis, tegument.

An outer surface (usually thin).

Body covering of a living animal. Synonyms: hide, pelt.

A person's skin regarded as their life.

The rind of a fruit or vegetable. Synonym: peel.

A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal.

verb

(past & past part. skinned; pres. part. skinning)

Climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling. Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle.

Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of. Synonym: scrape.

Remove the bark of a tree. Synonym: bark.

Strip the skin off. Synonyms: pare, peel.

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"Skin" Quotes from Famous Books

... nights in succession the figure visited the hunter's camp. The third night the hunter noticed that the figure was breathing. He saw one of the hands protruding from the robe. The skin was perfectly black and was stuck fast to the bones of the hand. On seeing this the hunter arose and going over to his medicine sack which hung on a pole, took down the sack and, opening it, took out some roots and mixing them with skunk oil and ...

— Myths and Legends of the Sioux • Marie L. McLaughlin

... I have given him a fold of skin between the front and hind leg on each side," explained Old Mother Nature. "When he jumps he stretches his legs out flat, and that stretches out those two folds of skin until they look almost like wings. This is the reason he can sail ...

— The Burgess Animal Book for Children • Thornton W. Burgess

... radiation - a portion of the electromagnetic energy emitted by the sun and naturally filtered in the upper atmosphere by the ozone layer; UV radiation can be harmful to living organisms and has been linked to increasing rates of skin cancer in humans. ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... culminating in a helpless mix-up, not ten yards from the starting-line, which was just what the crowd wanted and expected. The exception mentioned was notable, being a native game, played by two grown men. One of these sits on a box or bench and, putting his right heel on it, with both hands draws the skin on the outside of his right thigh tight and waits. The other man, standing behind the first, with a round-arm blow and open hand slaps the tightened part of the thigh of the man on the box, the point being to draw the blood up under the skin. The blow delivered, an umpire inspects, the American ...

— The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga • Cornelis De Witt Willcox

... took yesterday's soda biscuits out of the steamer where they were warming and softening; brought an apple pie and a plate of seed cakes from the pantry; settled the coffee with a piece of dried fish skin and an egg shell; and transferred some fried potatoes from the spider to a ...

— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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