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skinned, ppl. a.|skɪnd|
[f. skin n. and v.]
I.
1. a. Having a skin, esp. of a specified kind.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xix. 206 In another Yle ben folk, that gon upon hire Hondes and hire Feet, as Bestes: and thei ben alle skynned and fedred. 1611Cotgr., Marmote,..a little muddie fish, headed, skinned, and finned, like an Eele. 1641Brome Joviall Crew iii, Oh here they come. They are delicately skin'd and limb'd. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 260 Skate is skin'd like a File. 1727Philip Quarll (1754) 3 These Fish are..skinned like a Mackerel.
b. With defining term prefixed, as clean-skinned, dark-skinned, fox-skinned, hard-skinned, loose-skinned, etc.
See also thick- and thin-skinned.
1450–80tr. Secreta Secret. 32 Kepe the fro fische þat is hard skynned. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. § 56 Se that he [an ox] haue a brode ryb, and a thycke hyde, and to be lose-skinned. 1598–[see rough-skinned a.]. 1611Cotgr., Poire d'amiot, a yellow, and hard-skind Peare. 1665R. Brathwait Comment. Two Tales (1900) 45 What Sir Raynard, ye fox-skin'd Chuffe. 1827[see fair a. 18]. 1893F. Adams New Egypt 58 An English official,..having a lean, clean-skinned body. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin iii. vi, A bright-eyed, dark-skinned little girl.
2. Of wounds, etc.: Covered with skin. Also with over.
1640Bp. Reynolds Passions xxvii. 288 Which like a skinn'd wound doth wrankle inwardly. 1739S. Sharp Surg. p. xxx, The Edges of it in process of time, tuck in, and growing skinn'd and hard, give it the Name of a callous Ulcer. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 90 My wounds, though not skinned, were healing apace. 1809Malkin Gil Blas xi. ix. ⁋6 A wound imperfectly skinned over.
3. Covered with a layer (of something).
1684T. Burnet Theory Earth i. 145 When the earth grows discolour'd and skin'd over. 1837Wordsw. Musings near Aquapendente 193 From pavement skinned with moss.
II.
4. a. Stripped of the skin.
1673Ray Journ. Low C. 404 Their [frogs'] flesh shows white and lovely as they lie in the markets skin'd and ready prepared. 1826Scott Woodst. xxxii, The boy, whose appearance [was] not much dissimilar to that of a skinned rabbit in a livery. 1861Macm. Mag. June 131 Birds and their eggs, skinned animals, and insects.
b. colloq. In phr. to keep one's eye skinned, etc., to keep a sharp look-out.
1833Political Examiner (Shelbyville, Kentucky) 22 June 4/1, I wish I may be shot if I dont think you had better keep your eyes skinned so that you can look powerful sharp, lest we get rowed up the river this heat. a1859Traits Amer. Humor (Bartlett), Keep your eye skinned for sign. 1887J. Farrell How He Died 22 The reverend josser..kept his eye skinned. 1898Kipling Fleet in Being iii, We kept a skinned eye on her.
c. Beaten, bested, overcome completely; esp. in to have (got) (a person or object) skinned. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1904‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings iii. 56, I guess you've got us skinned on the animal and vegetation question. 1908‘Yeslah’ Tenderfoot S. Calif. ii. 22 When it rains in California, it's got all the rest of the country skinned to death. 1913R. Brooke Let. c 23 July in Coll. Poems (1918) Mem. p. lxxxiv, ‘Sir, I may tell you that in my opinion you have Mr. Noyes skinned.’ That means I'm better than him. 1927E. Wallace Feathered Serpent iv. 47, I came down here to make a few inquiries... I've got these reporter guys skinned to death!
d. = skint a. Also with out. colloq.
1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 107/1 Skinned out, broke; without funds. 1957C. MacInnes City of Spades i. xii. 93 Why's he left me skinned in hopeless destitution? 1958Observer 14 Dec. 7/8 I'm skinned, I know I can always count on someone helpin' me. |