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A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin. James White.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general. The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and the cothurn might be assumed with effect. Motley.

A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

a creamlike medicinal preparation. In vain she tries her paste and creams, To smooth her skin or hide its seams. Goldsmith.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i.,4.

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin. She felt a curious, uneasy creepiness. Mrs. Alexander.

Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

Having the characteristics of a cretin. "Cretinous stupefaction." Ruskin.

Ornamentation with crockets. Ruskin.

ends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

Producing or forming a crust or skin. [R.]

Of pertaining to the skin; existing on, or affecting, the skin; as, a cutaneous disease; cutaneous absorption; cutaneous respiration.

The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.

Pertaining to the cuticle, or external coat of the skin; epidermal.

with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanitic skin.

umber, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins; a daker of gloves of ten pairs. Burrill.

ty was stronger than the tie of blood, because a partisan was more ready to dare without asking why. Jowett (Thu

A kind of scab or ulceration on the skin of lambs.