Skin
[skɪn]
Definition
(noun.) an outer surface (usually thin); 'the skin of an airplane'.
(noun.) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal.
(noun.) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; 'your skin is the largest organ of your body'.
(noun.) a person's skin regarded as their life; 'he tried to save his skin'.
(verb.) strip the skin off; 'pare apples'.
(verb.) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; 'The boy skinned his knee when he fell'.
Typist: Pearl--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.
(n.) The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat.
(n.) A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1.
(n.) The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants.
(n.) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
(n.) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
(v. t.) To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal.
(v. t.) To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
(v. t.) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
(v. i.) To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
(v. i.) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
Checker: Percy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Hide, pelt, derm, CUTIS.[2]. Husk, hull, peel, rind.
v. a. [1]. Flay, excoriate.[2]. Peel, pare.[3]. Cover with a skin or crust.
Edited by Beverly
Definition
n. the natural outer covering of an animal body: a hide: the bark or rind of plants &c.: the inside covering of the ribs of a ship: a drink of whisky hot.—v.t. to cover with skin: to cover the surface of: to strip the skin from to peel: to plunder cheat: to answer an examination paper &c. by unfair means.—v.i. to become covered with skin: to sneak off:—pr.p. skin′ning; pa.t. and pa.p. skinned.—adj. Skin′-deep as deep as the skin only: superficial.—ns. Skin′flint one who takes the smallest gains: a very niggardly person; Skin′ful as much as one can hold esp. of liquor.—adj. Skin′less having no skin or a very thin one.—ns. Skin′ner; Skin′niness.—adjs. Skin′ny consisting of skin or of skin only: wanting flesh; Skin′-tight fitting close to the skin.—n. Skin′-wool wool pulled from the skin of a dead sheep.—By or With the skin of one's teeth very narrowly; Clean skins unbranded cattle; Save one's skin to escape without injury.
Typist: Nelly
Examples
- Riviere's sallow skin. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He told me, in return, that he wondered I had arrived at my time of life, without knowing that a doctor's skin was waterproof. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The swans had gone out on to the opposite bank, the reeds smelled sweet, a faint breeze touched the skin. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- As an officer in His Majesty's service, I was bound to skin him. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- So much of my early life has been passed abroad, that I have quite cast my insular skin in that respect. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The assembled warriors and chieftains examined me closely, feeling my muscles and the texture of my skin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- His face was as sharp as a hatchet, and the skin of it was as yellow and dry and withered as an autumn leaf. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I've been a-chivied and a-chivied, fust by one on you and nixt by another on you, till I'm worritted to skins and bones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The skins of the larger animals were the original materials of clothing. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Some people have freckles, when others do not, because all skins are not alike, just the same as eyes are not all of one color. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Bell would have had it keep still at exchanging wild-beast skins for acorns. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Their dwellings are made of bark, skins and mattings of their own making, stretched on poles fixed in the ground. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Gerald looked at him, and with a slight revulsion saw the human animal, golden skinned and bare, somehow humiliating. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He held something in his two hands that looked like a freshly skinned rabbit and hurried across the corridor with it and in through another door. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I said, with withering irony, that it was sufficient to be skinned--I declined to be scalped. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They were white-skinned, full, muscular legs, handsome and decided. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A skinned man would be likely to look that way unless his attention were occupied with some other matter. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- She is always mighty gentle with her young baronet, mighty tender for his feelings, forsooth, and of his very thin-skinned _amour propre_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His nose was skinned and there was dust on the bloody patch and dust in his hair. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The skinning was begun and had to be finished. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typist: Sol