skin
/skɪn/ noun B1- The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human. · He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.
- The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
- The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
- A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid. · In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it.· Do you eat the skin on custard?
- A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program. · You can use this skin to change how the browser looks.
- An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game. · My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.
- Rolling paper for cigarettes. · Pass me a skin, mate.
- Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts. · Let me see a bit of skin.
Plural skins
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.
Perhaps Ikki the Porcupine had told him; but he said to Mowgli when they were deep in the jungle, as the boy lay with his head on Bagheera’s beautiful black skin, “Little Brother, how often have I told thee that Shere Khan is thy enemy?”
The answer was a perfectly indescribable hiss, and Mowgli kicked up his feet behind, clapped his hands together to applaud himself, and jumped on to Bagheera’s back, where he sat sideways, drumming with his heels on the glossy skin and making the worst faces he could think of at Baloo.
They found him stretched out on a warm ledge in the afternoon sun, admiring his beautiful new coat, for he had been in retirement for the last ten days changing his skin, and now he was very splendid--darting his big blunt-nosed head along the ground, and twisting the thirty feet of his body into fantastic knots and curves, and licking his lips as he thought of his dinner to come.
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