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outskin en · NOUN

Etymology

From out- + skin.

Meanings

1. An outer skin; surface.
   • But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return. 1896, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest:
   • Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […] 1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24
   • Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […] 2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar:
   • One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned. 1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine, volume 8:
   • The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin. 1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening:
2. The external skin.
   • They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […] 1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158:
3. A skin or pelt of some special description.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
outskins	Number=Plur		lexicographic

outskin en · VERB

Etymology

From out- + skin.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To surpass in skinning.
   • There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men. 2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses:

Forms

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outskinned	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
outskinned	Tense=Past		lexicographic
outskinning	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part		lexicographic
outskins	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres		lexicographic