n. In anat, and zoology, the continuous covering of an animal; the cutaneous investment of the body; the integument, cutis, or derm, especially when soft and flexible, a hard or rigid skin being called a shell, test, exoskeleton, etc.n. The integument of an animal stripped from the body, with or without its appendages; a hide, pelt, or fur, either raw and green, or variously cured, dressed, or tanned.n. In museums, the outer covering of an animal, preserved for examination or exhibition with the fur, feathers, etc., but not mounted or set up in imitation of life.n. A water-vessel made of the whole or nearly the whole skin of a goat or other beast; a wine-skin. See cut under bottle.n. That which resembles skin in nature or use; the outer coat or covering of anything; especially, the exterior coating or layer of any substance when firmer or tougher than the interior; a rind or peel: as, the skin of fruit or plants; the skin (putamen) of an egg.n. Nautical:n. That part of a furled sail which is on the outside and covers the whole.n. The planking or iron plating which covers the ribs of a vessel on the inside; also, the thin plating on the outer side of the ribs of an armor-plated iron ship.n. A mean, stingy person; a skinflint.n. A hot punch of whisky made in the glass; a whisky-skin.n. = Syn. 1, 2, and Skin, Hide, Pelt. Rind, Peel, Husk, Bull. Skin is the general word for the external covering or tissue of an animal, including man, and for coatings of fruits, especially such coatings as are thin, as of apples, Hide applies especially to the skin of large domestic animals, as horses and oxen. Pelt is an untanned skin of a beast with the hair on. Rind is used somewhat generally of the bark of trees, the natural covering of fruit, etc. Peel is the skin or rind of a fruit, which is easily removable by peeling off: as, orange-peel; the peel of a banana. Husk is an easily removable integument of certain plants, especially Indian corn. A hull is generally smaller than a husk, perhaps less completely covering the fruit: as, strawberry-hulls; raspberry-hulls.To provide with skin; cover as with a skin.To strip the skin from; flay; peel.To strip or peel off; remove by turning back and drawing off inside out.To strip of valuable properties or possessions; fleece; plunder; rob; cheat; swindle.To copy or pretend to learn by employment of irregular or forbidden expedients, as a college exercise: as, to skin an example in mathematics by copying the solution.To become covered with skin; grow a new skin; cicatrize: as, a wound skins over.To accomplish anything by irregular, underhand, or dishonest means; specifically, in college use, to employ forbidden or unfair methods or expedients in preparing for recitation or examination.To slip away; abscond; make off.To range wide, as a dog in the field.n. In electricity, the outer layers of a conductor, which serve in the conduction of currents of high frequency.To take off the top layer of, as of a race-track.
