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• Skin

  ·vi To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over. II. Skin ·noun A vessel made of skin, used...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• skin

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Skin-deep

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

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• blue skin

  A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• skin flint

  An avaricious man or woman, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kangaroo-skin

  n. either the leather for thetanned hide, or the complete fur for rugs and wraps. 1806. `History o...

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

• wallaby-skin

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

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

• skin-flint

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

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cat's-skin

  A light partial current of air, as with the cat's-paw. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• 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...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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. ♦ ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hospital for Diseases of the Skin

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

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• 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.