1.  skin(n = noun.body) cutis, tegument - a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body"
is a kind of body covering, connective tissue
is a part of integumentary system
has parts: pressure point, cuticle, epidermis, skin cell, corium, derma, dermis, macula, macule, freckle, lentigo, liver spot, milium, whitehead, blackhead, comedo, pore, scab, sudoriferous gland, sweat gland, free nerve ending, pacinian corpuscle, crease, crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle
has particulars: investment, thick skin, skin graft, buff, dewlap, foreskin, prepuce, foreskin, prepuce, scalp, cuticle, agnail, hangnail
Derived forms verb skin₂, adjective skinny₂

2.  skin(n = noun.artifact) - an outer surface (usually thin); "the skin of an airplane"
is a kind of surface
is a part of aircraft

3.  skin(n = noun.animal) hide, pelt - body covering of a living animal;
is a kind of body covering
Derived form verb skin₂

4.  skin(n = noun.state) - a person's skin regarded as their life; "he tried to save his skin"
is a kind of aliveness, animation, life, living

5.  skin(n = noun.food) peel - the rind of a fruit or vegetable;
is a kind of rind
is a part of edible fruit
has particulars: jacket, banana peel, banana skin, lemon peel, lemon rind, orange peel, orange rind
Derived form verb skin₄

6.  skin(n = noun.artifact) - a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal;
is a kind of bag
has particulars: water skin, waterskin, wineskin

1.  skin(v = verb.motion) clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling;
is one way to climb
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s PP

2.  skin(v = verb.contact) scrape - bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of; "The boy skinned his knee when he fell"
is one way to injure, wound
Derived forms noun skin₃, noun skin₁
Sample sentences: Did he skin his foot?

3.  skin(v = verb.contact) bark - remove the bark of a tree;
is one way to strip
Sample sentences: They skin the trees

4.  skin(v = verb.contact) pare, peel - strip the skin off; "pare apples"
is one way to strip
Derived forms noun skin₅, noun skinner₄
Sample sentences: The chefs skin the vegetables

1.  The external membranous integument of an animal. [1913 Webster]
" In man, and the vertebrates generally, the skin consist of two layers, an outer nonsensitive and nonvascular epidermis, cuticle, or skarfskin, composed of cells which are constantly growing and multiplying in the deeper, and being thrown off in the superficial, layers; and an inner sensitive, and vascular dermis, cutis, corium, or true skin, composed mostly of connective tissue." [1913 Webster]

2.  The hide of an animal, separated from the body, whether green, dry, or tanned; especially, that of a small animal, as a calf, sheep, or goat. [1913 Webster]

3.  A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

4.  The bark or husk of a plant or fruit; the exterior coat of fruits and plants. [1913 Webster]

5.  That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole. [1913 Webster]

1.  To strip off the skin or hide of; to flay; to peel; as, to skin an animal. [1913 Webster]

2.  To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover superficially. [1913 Webster]
"It will but skin and film the ulcerous place." [1913 Webster]

3.  To strip of money or property; to cheat. [1913 Webster]

1.  To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over. [1913 Webster]

2.  To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use in such exercise cribs, memeoranda, etc., which are prohibited. [1913 Webster]

skin, n. & v.
--n.
1 the flexible continuous covering of a human or other animal body.
2 a the skin of a flayed animal with or without the hair etc. b a material prepared from skins esp. of smaller animals (opp. HIDE(2)).
3 a person's skin with reference to its colour or complexion (has a fair skin).
4 an outer layer or covering, esp. the coating of a plant, fruit, or sausage.
5 a film like skin on the surface of a liquid etc.
6 a container for liquid, made of an animal's whole skin.
7 a the planking or plating of a ship or boat, inside or outside the ribs. b the outer covering of any craft or vehicle, esp. an aircraft or spacecraft.
8 Brit. sl. a skinhead.
9 US Cards a game in which each player has one card which he bets will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack.
10 = gold-beater's skin.
11 a duplicating stencil.
--v. (skinned, skinning)
1 tr. remove the skin from.
2 (often foll. by over) a tr. cover (a sore etc.) with or as with skin. b intr. (of a wound etc.) become covered with new skin.
3 tr. sl. fleece or swindle.

Idiom:
be skin and bone be very thin. by (or with) the skin of one's teeth by a very narrow margin. change one's skin undergo an impossible change of character etc. get under a person's skin colloq. interest or annoy a person intensely. have a thick (or thin) skin be insensitive (or sensitive) to criticism etc. no skin off one's nose colloq. a matter of indifference or even benefit to one. skin-deep (of a wound, or of an emotion, an impression, beauty, etc.) superficial, not deep or lasting. skin-diver a person who swims underwater without a diving-suit, usu. in deep water with an aqualung and flippers. skin-diving such swimming. skin effect Electr. the tendency of a high-frequency alternating current to flow through the outer layer only of a conductor. skin-flick sl. an explicitly pornographic film. skin-food a cosmetic intended to improve the condition of the skin. skin friction friction at the surface of a solid and a fluid in relative motion. skin game US sl. a swindling game. skin-graft
1 the surgical transplanting of skin.
2 a piece of skin transferred in this way. skin test a test to determine whether an immune reaction is elicited when a substance is applied to or injected into the skin. skin-tight (of a garment) very close-fitting. to the skin through all one's clothing (soaked to the skin). with a whole skin unwounded.

Derivative:
skinless adj. skin-like adj. skinned adj. (also in comb.).

Etymology:
OE scin(n) f. ON skinn

VB  be disjoined, come off, fall off, come to pieces, fall to pieces, peel off, get loose, disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair, divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate, set apart, keep apart, insulate, isolate, throw out of gear, cut adrift, loose, unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock, unpack, unravel, disentangle, set free, sunder, divide, subdivide, sever, dissever, abscind, circumcise, cut, incide, incise, saw, snip, nib, nip, cleave, rive, rend, slit, split, splinter, chip, crack, snap, break, tear, burst, rend, rend asunder, rend in twain, wrench, rupture, shatter, shiver, cranch, crunch, craunch, chop, cut up, rip up, hack, hew, slash, whittle, haggle, hackle, discind, lacerate, scamble, mangle, gash, hash, slice, cut up, carve, dissect, anatomize, dislimb, take to pieces, pull to pieces, pick to pieces, tear to pieces, tear to tatters, tear piecemeal, tear limb from limb, divellicate, skin, disintegrate, dismember, disbranch, disband, disperse, dislocate, disjoint, break up, mince, comminute, apportion, part, part company, separate, leave.

N  thief, robber, homo triumliterarum, pilferer, rifler, filcher, plagiarist, spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder, harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit, pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier, piqueerer, pickeerer, rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster, rapparee, wrecker, picaroon, smuggler, poacher, abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man, highwayman, Dick Turpin, Claude Duval, Macheath, footpad, sturdy beggar, cut purse, pick purse, pickpocket, light-fingered gentry, sharper, card sharper, skittle sharper, thimblerigger, rook, Greek, blackleg, leg, welsher, defaulter, Autolycus, Jeremy Diddler, Robert Macaire, artful dodger, trickster, swell mob, chevalier d'industrie, shoplifter, swindler, peculator, forger, coiner, fence, receiver of stolen goods, duffer, smasher, burglar, housebreaker, cracksman, magsman, Bill Sikes, Jack Sheppard, Jonathan Wild, gang, gang of thieves, theft ring, organized crime, mafia, the Sicilian Mafia, the mob, la cosa nostra, Dillinger, Al Capone, Robin Hood.

N  exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.

N  covering, cover, baldachin, baldachino, baldaquin, canopy, tilt, awning, tent, marquee, tente d'abri, umbrella, parasol, sunshade, veil (shade), shield, roof, ceiling, thatch, tile, pantile, pentile, tiling, slates, slating, leads, barrack, plafond, planchment, tiling, shed, top, lid, covercle, door, operculum, bulkhead, bandage, plaster, lint, wrapping, dossil, finger stall, coverlet, counterpane, sheet, quilt, tarpaulin, blanket, rug, drugget, housing, antimacassar, eiderdown, numdah, pillowcase, pillowslip, linoleum, saddle cloth, blanket cloth, tidy, tilpah, apishamore, integument, tegument, skin, pellicle, fleece, fell, fur, leather, shagreen, hide, pelt, peltry, cordwain, derm, robe, buffalo robe, cuticle, scarfskin, epidermis, clothing, mask, peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat, eggshell, glume, capsule, sheath, sheathing, pod, cod, casing, case, theca, elytron, elytrum, involucrum, wrapping, wrapper, envelope, vesicle, corn husk, corn shuck, dermatology, conchology, testaceology, inunction, incrustation, superimposition, superposition, obduction, scale, veneer, facing, overlay, plate, silver plate, gold plate, copper plate, engobe, ormolu, Sheffield plate, pavement, coating, paint, varnish, plating, barrel plating, anointing, enamel, epitaxial deposition, vapor deposition, ground, whitewash, plaster, spackel, stucco, compo, cerement, ointment, covering, superimposed, overlaid, plated, cutaneous, dermal, cortical, cuticular, tegumentary, skinny, scaly, squamous, covered, imbricated, loricated, armor plated, ironclad, under cover, cowled, cucullate, dermatoid, encuirassed, hooded, squamiferous, tectiform, vaginate.

VB  divest, uncover &c (cover), denude, bare, strip, disfurnish, undress, disrobe &c (dress, enrobe), uncoif, dismantle, put off, take off, cast off, doff, peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay, expose, lay open, exfoliate, molt, mew, cast the skin.

animal skin, artificial skin, banana skin, disease of the skin, electrical skin response, galvanic skin response, get under one's skin, goose skin, potato skin, skin and bones, skin cancer, skin care, skin cell, skin color, skin colour, skin condition, skin deep, skin disease, skin disorder, skin diving, skin doctor, skin effect, skin eruption, skin flick, skin graft, skin over, skin patch, skin perceptiveness, skin pop, skin popping, skin problem, skin rash, skin sensation, skin senses, skin test, skin tumor, thick skin, tuberculin skin test, water skin