= epidermis, n.

A pelt, an outer skin. Also figurative.

Anatomy. The true skin or derma of the body, underlying the epidermis or cuticle.

The epidermis, n. or scarf-skin of the body.

The outer layer of the skin; the epidermis, cuticle.

= cuticle, n. 1 2; now esp. of certain lower organisms.

Anatomy. The outer (non-vascular) layer of the skin of animals; the cuticle or scarf-skin.

the side of a skin that was nearest the flesh (see 6); ‘the rough side of a leather belt’ (Lockwood).

= derm, n.

Resembling a scarf. scarfy skin = scarf-skin, n.

= Malpighian layer n. at Malpighian, adj. 1f.

Zoology. A tissue or layer lying beneath the skin or outer integument: as the membrane that lines the under-side of the elytra of Coleoptera (obsolete…

Anatomy. The cutis vera or true skin; = corium, n.

The true skin; = derm, n.

Physiology. The true skin or derma under the epidermis.

The layer of tissue (chiefly connective tissue) lying beneath the epidermis, and forming the general integument of the organs; the true skin or…

= epidermis, n. in its various senses.

Short for flesh side n. at compounds 2 (of a skin).

Anatomy and Zoology. = rete mucosum, n.

spec. Of leather. = grain-side n. at compounds 2.

= hypoderma, n. 1.

The outermost layer of the skin, consisting of dead, flattened, keratin-filled epithelial cells.

the side of a skin on which the hair grew, opposed to flesh-side.