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A pendulous process of the skin on the throat of a bird, as in the turkey; a dewlap.

Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

An outer garment; a cloak mantle. His lion's skin changed to a pall of gold. Spenser.

A tumor formed by hypertrophy of the papillæ of the skin or mucous membrane, as a corn or a wart. Quain.

A web or fold of skin which extends between the legs of certain mammals, as the flying squirrels, colugo, and phalangister.

To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

To remove; to separate; to cut or shave, as the skin, ring, or outside part, from anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

An outer garment made of the skins of birds or mammals, worn by Eskimos, etc.

The skin of a calf's head.

To strip off the skin, bark, or rind of; to strip by drawing or tearing off the skin, bark, husks, etc.; to flay; to decorticate; as, to peel an orange. The skillful shepherd peeled me certain wands. Shak.

A skin or hide; a pelt.

A customs duty on skins of leather.

An erythematous affection of the skin, with severe constitutional and nervous symptoms, endemic in Northern Italy.

A thin skin or film.

The skin of a beast with the hair on; a raw or undressed hide; a skin preserved with the hairy or woolly covering on it. See 4th Fell. Sir T. Browne. Raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller.

A pinchpenny; a mean, sordid person; a miser; a skinflint. [Obs.] "Let such pelters prate." Gascoigne.

Pelts or skins, collectively; skins with the fur on them; furs.

A somewhat rare skin disease, characterized by the development of blebs upon different part of the body. Quain.

xpression of space by any means whatsoever, sharpness of edge, vividness of color, etc. Ruskin.