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A game at cards, vulgarly called lambskinnet. [They play] their little game of lansquenet. Longfellow.

he jellyfishes, as the Portuguese man-of-war, and Cyanea, are able to penetrate the human skin, and inflict painful stings in the same way. Called also nettling cell, cnida, cnidocell.

The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.

A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.

A freckly eruption on the skin; freckles.

s, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably conta…

Flesh; skin. [Obs.] "His white leer." Chaucer.

c Crustacea found attached to fishes and other marine animals. Some species penetrate the skin and flesh with the elongated head, and feed on the viscera. See Illust. in Appendix.

Strong desire; passion. (Archaic.) Some people have a letch for unmasking impostors, or for avenging the wrongs of others. De Quincey.

Having a dropsical habit of body, with a white bloated skin.

White; -- applied to albinos, from the whiteness of their skin and hair.

A name given to several varieties of skin disease, esp. to one characterized by the eruption of small, conical or flat, reddish pimples, which, if unchecked, tend to spread and produce great and even fatal exhaustion.

Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.

iquid or semiliquid preparation of a consistence thinner than an ointment, applied to the skin by friction, esp. one used as a sedative or a stimulant.

d, I will . . . lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live. Ezek. xxxvii. 5, 6.

A washing, especially of the skin for the purpose of rendering it fair.

formerly much in req [Written also lusern and luzern.] The polecat, mastern, and the richskinned lucern I know to chase. Beau. & Fl.

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

another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. Erskine.