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Very old. [Obs.] A bear's skin, coal-black, forold. Chaucer.

Lambskin parchment; vellum; forel. McElrath.

The skin which a deer frays from his horns. B. Jonson.

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

A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade. [R.] Prior.

act of rubbing the body with the hand, with flannel, or with a brush etc., to excite the skin to healthy action.

To leap, skip, dance, or gambol, in fronc and gayety. The frisking satyrs on the summits danced. Addison.

Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.

The short, fine, soft hair of certain animals, growing thick on the skin, and distinguished from the hair, which is longer and coarser.

Furnished with fuzz; having fuzz; like fuzz; as, the fuzzy skin of a peach.

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

See Gaskins, 1. Lyly.

Gaskins. Beau & Fl.

The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness. Ruskin.

The fur of the common genet (Genetta vulgaris); also, any skin dressed in imitation of this fur.

ng something to be used in, or eliminated from, the body; as, the sebaceous glands of the skin; the salivary glands of the mouth.

To feel hot; to have a burning sensation, as of the skin, from friction, exercise, etc.; to burn. Did not his temples glow In the same sultry winds and acrching heats Addison. The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands. Gay.

A hard brittle brownish gelatin, obtained by boiling to a jelly the skins, hoofs, etc., of animals. When gently heated with water, it becomes viscid and tenaceous, and is used as a cement for uniting substances. The name is also given to other adhesive or viscous substances. Bee glue. See under Bee. -- Fish glue, a st…

s in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.