A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.
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A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer: the skin of a peach; a sausage skin; the skin of an aircraft.
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An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal: a tent made of goat skins.
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Music A drumhead.
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The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.
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idiom
Under the skin Beneath the surface; fundamentally: enemies who are really brothers under the skin.
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verb
To strip, scrape, or rub off an outer covering (as the skin or rind) of.
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To strip or peel off.
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To cut, chip, or damage the surface of.
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To cover with or as if with skin.
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To heal over with skin.
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adjective
Slang Of, relating to, or depicting pornography: skin magazines.
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Involving subjects who are nude.
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Devoted to showing nudes.
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verb-transitive
Slang To fleece; swindle.
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To bruise, cut, or injure the skin or surface of: She skinned her knee.
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To cover with or as if with skin: skin the framework of a canoe.
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To remove (an outer covering); peel off: skin off the thin bark.
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To remove skin from: skinned and gutted the rabbit.
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