Definition of "skin" []

• The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis. (noun)
• An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal: a tent made of goat skins. (noun)
• A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer: the skin of a peach; a sausage skin; the skin of an aircraft. (noun)
• A container for liquids that is made of animal skin. (noun)
• Music A drumhead. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Beneath the black hoods and hats, their faces were white, skin the color of alabaster and possessed of an abnormal quality, an unidentifiable property that ordinary skin -- _human skin_ -- did not have."
• "The layer marked 1 is the outside, very thin skin, called the _cuticle_ or _scarf skin_."
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