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Skin

The external membranous integument of an animal.

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Animation 76% connected

The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive.

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Bag 76% connected

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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Bully 76% connected

A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.

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Climb 76% connected

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Injure 76% connected

To do harm to; to impair the excellence and value of; to hurt; to damage; -- used in a variety of senses; as: (a) To hurt or wound, as the person; to…

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Life 76% connected

The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that s…

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Living 76% connected

of Live

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Rind 76% connected

The external covering or coat, as of flesh, fruit, trees, etc.; skin; hide; bark; peel; shell.

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Rowdy 76% connected

One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow.

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Ruffian 76% connected

A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.

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Strip 76% connected

To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession,…

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Surface 76% connected

The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, t…

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Tough 76% connected

Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of an…

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Wound 76% connected

of Wind

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Narrower term 10

Agnail 76% connected

A corn on the toe or foot.

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Buff 76% connected

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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Cuticle 76% connected

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

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Dewlap 76% connected

The pendulous skin under the neck of an ox, which laps or licks the dew in grazing.

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Foreskin 76% connected

The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.

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Hangnail 76% connected

A small piece or silver of skin which hangs loose, near the root of finger nail.

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Investment 76% connected

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

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Jacket 76% connected

A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts.

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Prepuce 76% connected

The foreskin.

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Scalp 76% connected

A bed of oysters or mussels.

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Manner of action 1

Flay 76% connected

To skin; to strip off the skin or surface of; as, to flay an ox; to flay the green earth.

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Derivationally related 10

Cutaneous 74% connected

Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

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Cutaneous 74% connected

Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

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Pare 74% connected

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

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Pare 74% connected

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

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Parer 74% connected

One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

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Parer 74% connected

One who, or that which, pares; an instrument for paring.

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Paring 74% connected

of Pare

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Paring 74% connected

of Pare

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Scrape 74% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Scrape 74% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Component part 20

Blackhead 70% connected

The scaup duck.

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Comedo 70% connected

A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, w…

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Corium 70% connected

Armor made of leather, particularly that used by the Romans; used also by Enlish soldiers till the reign of Edward I.

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Crease 70% connected

See Creese.

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Crinkle 70% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

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Cuticle 70% connected

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

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Derma 70% connected

See Dermis.

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Dermis 70% connected

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin,…

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Epidermis 70% connected

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

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Freckle 70% connected

A small yellowish or brownish spot in the skin, particularly on the face, neck, or hands.

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Furrow 70% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Lentigo 70% connected

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

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Line 70% connected

Flax; linen.

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Macula 70% connected

A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

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Macule 70% connected

A spot.

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Pore 70% connected

One of the minute orifices in an animal or vegetable membrane, for transpiration, absorption, etc.

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Scab 70% connected

An incrustation over a sore, wound, vesicle, or pustule, formed by the drying up of the discharge from the diseased part.

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Seam 70% connected

Grease; tallow; lard.

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Whitehead 70% connected

The blue-winged snow goose.

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Wrinkle 70% connected

A winkle.

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Substance part 1

Melanin 70% connected

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer…

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Synonym 15

Baldhead 92% connected

A person whose head is bald.

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Baldpate 92% connected

A baldheaded person.

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Bark 92% connected

To strip the bark from; to peel.

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Clamber 92% connected

To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.

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Cutis 92% connected

See Dermis.

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Hide 92% connected

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete.

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Pare 92% connected

To cut off, or shave off, the superficial substance or extremities of; as, to pare an apple; to pare a horse's hoof.

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Peel 92% connected

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep.

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Pelt 92% connected

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell.

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Scramble 92% connected

To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks.

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Scrape 92% connected

To rub over the surface of (something) with a sharp or rough instrument; to rub over with something that roughens by removing portions of the surface…

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Shin 92% connected

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone; the lower part of the leg; the shank.

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Sputter 92% connected

To spit, or to emit saliva from the mouth in small, scattered portions, as in rapid speaking.

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Struggle 92% connected

To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.

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Tegument 92% connected

A cover or covering; an integument.

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