Definition of skin

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Skin (n.) The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Dermatitis :: Dermatitis (n.) Inflammation of the skin.
Episperm :: Episperm (n.) The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa..
Leather :: Leather (n.) The skin.
Buskined :: Buskined (a.) Trodden by buskins; pertaining to tragedy.
Cuticle :: Cuticle (n.) A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Swanskin :: Swanskin (n.) The act of a swan with the down or the feathers on.
Dermis :: Dermis (n.) The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix..
Skinny :: Skinny (a.) Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh..
Excorticate :: Excorticate (v. t.) To strip of bark or skin; to decorticate.
Touch :: Touch (v.) The sense by which pressure or traction exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile..
Fuzzy :: Fuzzy (n.) Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach..
Gland :: Gland (n.) An organ for secreting something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth..
Frolic :: Frolic (a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry..
Stahlian :: Stagworm (n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils..
Adarce :: Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy..
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..
Drumhead :: Drumhead (n.) The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
Hair :: Hair (n.) One the above-mentioned filaments, consisting, in invertebrate animals, of a long, tubular part which is free and flexible, and a bulbous root imbedded in the skin..
Tinea :: Tinea (n.) A name applied to various skin diseases, but especially to ringworm. See Ringworm, and Sycosis..
Exanthesis :: Exanthesis (n.) An eruption of the skin; cutaneous efflorescence.
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