SKIN

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old Norse ~n; akin to Old English scinn ~, Middle High German schint fruit peel Date: 13th century 1. a. the integument of an animal (as a fur-bearing mammal or a bird) separated from the body usually with its hair or feathers, a usually unmounted specimen of a vertebrate (as in a museum), the hide or pelt of a game or domestic animal, c. the pelt of an animal prepared for use as a trimming or in a garment, a sheet of parchment or vellum made from a hide, bottle 1b, 2. the external limiting tissue layer of an animal body, an outer covering (as a rind or husk) of a fruit or seed, a membranous film or scum (as on boiling milk or drying paint), the life or physical well-being of a person , a sheathing or casing forming the outside surface of a structure (as a ship or airplane), ~less adjective II. verb (~ned; ~ning) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to strip, scrape, or rub off an outer covering (as the ~ or rind) of, to strip or peel off, to cut, chip, or damage the surface of , 2. to cover with or as if with ~, to heal over with ~, 3. to strip of money or property ; fleece , to defeat badly, censure , castigate , to urge on and direct the course of (as a draft animal), intransitive verb to become covered with or as if with ~, 2. shinny , to pass or get by with scant room to spare, III. adjective Date: circa 1935 involving subjects who are nude