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Heat :: Heat (n.) High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc..

Skin :: Skin (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..

Subcuticular :: Subcutaneous (a.) Situated under the skin; hypodermic.

Thickskin :: Thickskin (n.) A coarse, gross person; a person void of sensibility or sinsitiveness; a dullard..

Interrogative :: Interrogative (n.) A word used in asking questions; as, who? which? why?.

Efflower :: Efflower (v. t.) To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather..

Damasking :: Damasking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Damas.

Lernean :: Lernean (n.) One of a family (Lernaeidae) of parasitic Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix..

Smegma :: Smegma (n.) The cheesy, sebaceous matter which collects between the glans penis and the foreskin..

Redstreak :: Redstreak (n.) A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple..

Skinched :: Skinched (imp. & p. p.) of Skinc.

-derm :: -derm (n.) A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms, and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm, etc..

Inunction :: Inunction (n.) The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed..

Lambskin :: Lambskin (n.) The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively..

What :: What (pron., a., & adv.) As an interrogative pronoun, used in asking questions regarding either persons or things; as, what is this? what did you say? what poem is this? what child is lost?.

Kid :: Kid (n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc..

Endermic :: Endermic (a.) Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin..

Epidermic :: Epidermic (a.) Epidermal; connected with the skin or the bark.

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

Blister :: Blister (n.) Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel..

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