[skin] 
noun, verb, skinned, skin⋅ning, adjective | 1. | the external covering or integument of an animal body, esp. when soft and flexible. |
| 2. | such an integument stripped from the body of an animal, esp. a small animal; pelt: a beaver skin. |
| 3. | the tanned or treated pelt or hide of an animal, esp. when used in apparel and accessories; leather (usually used in combination): pigskin; calfskin. |
| 4. | any integumentary covering, casing, outer coating, or surface layer, as an investing membrane, the rind or peel of fruit, or a film on liquid: a skin of thin ice; the aluminum skin of an airplane. |
| 5. | Jewelry.
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| 6. | Nautical.
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| 7. | Metallurgy. an outer layer of a metal piece having characteristics differing from those of the interior. |
| 8. | a container made of animal skin, used for holding liquids, esp. wine. |
| 9. | Slang. condom. |
| 10. | skins, Slang. drums. |
| 11. | Slang. a swindler; cheat. |
| 12. | Slang. a skinflint. |
| 13. | Slang. a horse. |
| 14. | Slang. a dollar bill. |
| 15. | Rocketry. the outer surface of a missile or rocket. |
| 16. | to strip or deprive of skin; flay; peel; husk. |
| 17. | to remove or strip off (any covering, outer coating, surface layer, etc.). |
| 18. | to scrape or rub a small piece of skin from (one's hand, leg, etc.), as in falling or sliding against something: She skinned her knee. |
| 19. | to urge on, drive, or whip (a draft animal, as a mule or ox). |
| 20. | to climb or jump: He skinned the rope to the top of the wall. |
| 21. | to cover with or as if with skin. |
| 22. | Slang. to strip of money or belongings; fleece, as in gambling. |
| 23. | Cards. to slide cards one at a time off the top of (the pack) in dealing. |
| 24. | Slang. to defeat completely: skinned at the polls. |
| 25. | Slang. to castigate; reprimand: skinned for his disobedience. |
| 26. | Slang. to slip off or depart hurriedly (often followed by out). |
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| 28. | by the skin of one's teeth, Informal. by an extremely narrow margin; just barely; scarcely: We made the last train by the skin of our teeth. |
| 29. | get under one's skin, Slang.
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| 30. | have a thick skin, to be insensitive to criticism or rebuffs: The complaint desk is a job for someone who has a thick skin. |
| 31. | have a thin skin, to be extremely sensitive to criticism or rebuffs; be easily offended: Be careful what you say to me, I have a thin skin. |
| 32. | in or with a whole skin, without harm; unscathed; safely: She escaped from the burning building with a whole skin. |
| 33. | no skin off one's back, nose, or teeth, Slang. of no interest or concern or involving no risk to one. |
| 34. | save one's skin, Informal. to avoid harm, esp. to escape death: They betrayed their country to save their skins. |
| 35. | skin alive, Informal.
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| 36. | under the skin, in essence; fundamentally; despite appearances or differences: sisters under the skin. |
[tooth] ,noun, plural teeth, verb, toothed [tootht, toothd] , tooth⋅ing [too-thing, -thing] .| 1. | (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel. |
| 2. | (in invertebrates) any of various similar or analogous processes occurring in the mouth or alimentary canal, or on a shell. |
| 3. | any projection resembling or suggesting a tooth. |
| 4. | one of the projections of a comb, rake, saw, etc. |
| 5. | Machinery.
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| 6. | Botany.
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| 7. | a sharp, distressing, or destructive attribute or agency. |
| 8. | taste, relish, or liking. |
| 9. | a surface, as on a grinding wheel or sharpening stone, slightly roughened so as to increase friction with another part. |
| 10. | a rough surface created on a paper made for charcoal drawing, watercolor, or the like, or on canvas for oil painting. |
| 11. | to furnish with teeth. |
| 12. | to cut teeth upon. |
| 13. | to interlock, as cogwheels. |
| 14. | by the skin of one's teeth, barely: He got away by the skin of his teeth. |
| 15. | cast or throw in someone's teeth, to reproach someone for (an action): History will ever throw this blunder in his teeth. |
| 16. | cut one's teeth on, to do at the beginning of one's education, career, etc., or in one's youth: The hunter boasted of having cut his teeth on tigers. |
| 17. | in the teeth of,
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| 18. | long in the tooth, old; elderly. |
| 19. | put teeth in or into, to establish or increase the effectiveness of: to put teeth into the law. |
| 20. | set one's teeth, to become resolute; prepare for difficulty: He set his teeth and separated the combatants. |
| 21. | set or put one's teeth on edge,
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| 22. | show one's teeth, to become hostile or threatening; exhibit anger: Usually friendly, she suddenly began to show her teeth. |
| 23. | to the teeth, entirely; fully: armed to the teeth; dressed to the teeth in furs. |
n), Skt dántaThe external tissue that covers the body. As the body's largest organ (it makes up about one twenty-fifth of an adult's weight), the skin serves as a waterproof covering that helps keep out pathogens and protects against temperature extremes and sunlight. The skin also contains special nerve endings that respond to touch, pressure, heat, and cold. The skin has an outer layer, or epidermis, and a layer immediately below, called the dermis.
A hard structure, embedded in the jaws of the mouth, that functions in chewing. The tooth consists of a crown, covered with hard white enamel; a root, which anchors the tooth to the jawbone; and a “neck” between the crown and the root, covered by the gum. Most of the tooth is made up of dentin, which is located directly below the enamel. The soft interior of the tooth, the pulp, contains nerves and blood vessels. Humans have molars for grinding food, incisors for cutting, and canines and bicuspids for tearing.
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"Ful of fleissche Y was to fele, Now ... Me is lefte But skyn & boon." [hymn, c.1430]Jazz slang sense of "drum" is from 1927. As an adj., it formerly had a slang sense of "cheating" (1868); sense of "pornographic" is attested from 1968. The verb is attested from 1392, from the noun. Skin-tight is from 1885; skin deep is first attested 1613 in this:
"All the carnall beauty of my wife, Is but skin-deep." [Sir Thomas Overbury, "A Wife," 1613; the poem was a main motive for his murder]
skin (skĭn)
n.
The membranous tissue forming an external protective covering or integument of an animal and consisting of the epidermis and dermis. v. skinned, skin·ning, skins
To bruise, cut, or injure the skin of.
tooth (t&oomacr;th)
n. pl. teeth (tēth)
One of a set of hard, bonelike structures rooted in sockets in the jaws of vertebrates, typically composed of a core of soft pulp surrounded by a layer of hard dentin that is coated with cement or enamel at the crown and used chiefly for biting or chewing food or as a means of attack or defense.
| skin (skĭn) Pronunciation Key
The outer covering of a vertebrate animal, consisting of two layers of cells, a thick inner layer (the dermis) and a thin outer layer (the epidermis). Structures such as hair, scales, or feathers are contained in the skin, as are fat cells, sweat glands, and sensory receptors. Skin provides a protective barrier against disease-causing microorganisms and against the sun's ultraviolet rays. In warm-blooded animals, it aids in temperature regulation, as by insulating against the cold. |
tooth (t th) Pronunciation Key
(click for larger image in new window) Plural teeth (tēth)
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