cat's-skin

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• skin

  1) In a bad skin; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-skinned: touchy, peevish. 2) A purse. Frisk...

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• skin

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• Skin-deep

  ·adj Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. ...

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• blue skin

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• skin flint

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• kangaroo-skin

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• wallaby-skin

  the skin, with the hair on it,of the wallaby, prized as a warm and ornamental fur for rugs. 1890. `...

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• skin-flint

  A niggardly, close-fisted person--one so parsimoniously mean, that he would perform that operation w...

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• Cat's-eye

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• Cat's-foot

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• Cat's-paw

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• Cat's-tail

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• Kilkenny cats

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• Cat's Hole

  East out of Little Tower Hill to St. Katherine's New Court (Horwood, 1799, and Lockie, 1816). Earli...

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• cat's foot

  To live under the cat's foot; to be under the dominion of a wife hen-pecked. To live like dog and ca...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• cat's paw

  To be made a cat's paw of; to be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another: an ...

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• cat's sleep

  Counterfeit sleep: cats often counterfeiting sleep, to decoy their prey near them, and then suddenly...

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• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

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• cat's tail

  n. See wonga. ...

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• cats-paw

  To be made a cats-paw of. To be made a tool or instrument to accomplish the purpose of another; an a...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cats-foot

  ground-ivy. Northumb. ...

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• cat's-paw

  A light air perceived at a distance in a calm, by the impressions made on the surface of the sea, wh...

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• cat's-tail

  The inner part of the cat-head, that fays down upon the cat-beam. ...

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• calf-skin fiddle

  A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...

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• cat's-head fern

  n. Aspidium aculeatum, Sw.: 1880. Mrs. Meredith, `Tasmanian Friends and Foes,' p. 220: «The cat's-...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cats t kerd

  cross, ill-conditioned. N. ...

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• Skin, Coats made of

  (Gen. 3:21). Skins of rams and badgers were used as a covering for the tabernacle (Ex. 25:5; Num. 4:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• tormenter of sheep skin

  A drummer. ...

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• skin of a sail

  The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...

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• grinagog, the cat's uncle

  A foolish grinning fellow, one who grins without reason. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Hospital for Diseases of the Skin

  On the east side of New Bridge Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880). ...

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• by the skin of one's teeth

  When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.