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outskin

outskin noun: an outer skin; surface.

Noun

outskin (plural outskins)

  1. An outer skin; surface.
    • 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
    • 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
  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.

Verb

outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)

  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

Examples of outskin in a sentence

  • The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening:
  • 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:

Forms of outskin

Noun
pluraloutskins
Verb
third-person singular presentoutskins
present participleoutskinning
past participleoutskinned
pastoutskinned

Origin of outskin

From out- + skin.

Questions about outskin

What does outskin mean?
Outskin means an outer skin; surface.
How do you use outskin in a sentence?
The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.
What part of speech is outskin?
Outskin can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of outskin?
The plural of outskin is outskins.

Words near outskin in the dictionary

  1. outskiing
  2. outskill
  3. outskilled
  4. outskilling
  5. outskills
  6. outskin
  7. outskinned
  8. outskinning
  9. outskins
  10. outskip
  11. outskipped

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