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skinless

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skin  (skn)
n.
1. The membranous tissue forming the external covering or integument of an animal and consisting in vertebrates of the epidermis and dermis.
2. An animal pelt, especially the comparatively pliable pelt of a small or young animal: a tent made of goat skins.
3. A usually thin, closely adhering outer layer: the skin of a peach; a sausage skin; the skin of an aircraft.
4. A container for liquids that is made of animal skin.
5. Music A drumhead.
6. Informal One's life or physical survival: They lied to save their skins.
v. skinned, skin·ning, skins
v.tr.
1. To remove skin from: skinned and gutted the rabbit.
2. To bruise, cut, or injure the skin or surface of: She skinned her knee.
3. To remove (an outer covering); peel off: skin off the thin bark.
4. To cover with or as if with skin: skin the framework of a canoe.
5. Slang To fleece; swindle.
v.intr.
1. To become covered with or as if with skin: In January the pond skins over with ice.
2. To pass with little room to spare: We barely skinned by.
adj. Slang
Of, relating to, or depicting pornography: skin magazines.
Idioms:
by the skin of (one's) teeth
By the smallest margin.
get under (someone's) skin
1. To irritate or stimulate; provoke.
2. To preoccupy someone; become an obsession.
under the skin
Beneath the surface; fundamentally: enemies who are really brothers under the skin.

[Middle English, from Old Norse skinn; see sek- in Indo-European roots.]

skinless adj.
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skin
cutaway of human skin
A. melanocyte B. muscle C. sebaceous gland D. hair shaft E. epidermis F. dermis G. subcutaneous tissue H. fat I. artery J. sweat gland K. hair follicle L. Pacinian corpuscle
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.skinless - having no skin
skinned - having skin of a specified kind
Translations
skinless [ˈskɪnlɪs] ADJ [chicken, sausages] → sin piel
skinless [ˈskɪnləs] adjsans peau
skinless chicken breast fillets → de la poitrine de poulet sans peau


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Anything that hinted at love for the moment alarmed her; it was as much an infliction to her as the rubbing of a skinless wound.
It was while engaged in this that a hideous, skinless thing came out of the house and ran screaming down the beach till it fell in the sand and mowed and gibbered under the scorching sun.
I was perpetually exasperated with the petty promptings of his conceit and his love of patronage, with his self-complacent belief in Bertha Grant's passion for him, with his half-pitying contempt for me--seen not in the ordinary indications of intonation and phrase and slight action, which an acute and suspicious mind is on the watch for, but in all their naked skinless complication.
 
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