skin
skin
- n a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
your skin is the largest organ of your body - n an outer surface (usually thin)
the skin of an airplane - n body covering of a living animal
- n a person's skin regarded as their life
he tried to save his skin - n the rind of a fruit or vegetable
- n a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
- v climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling
- v bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
The boy skinned his knee when he fell - v remove the bark of a tree
- v strip the skin off
- When he was born, in London, even his mother thought that he seemed to have a thick skin.
- A surgeon uses a scalpel to incise the skin, beginning an exploratory celiotomy.
- Anatomists have long held that white skins are tinted by three pigments: melanin, a black chemical; hemoglobin, a reddish substance which colors the blood; oxyhemoglobin, a form of .