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?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 100 In anoþer ile er folk whilke gase on þaire hend and on þaire fete, as þai ware foure foted bestez..And þei ben alle skynned and fedred.

c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 32 (MED) Kepe the fro fische þat is hard skynned.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxv^v Se that he [sc. an ox] haue a brode rybbe and a thicke hyde and to be lose skynned.

1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) Skinned, or cladde with skinne, Pellitus.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 401 The proud Horse, the rough-skinn'd Elephant.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Marmote,..a little muddie fish, headed, skinned, and finned, like an Eele.

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iii. sig. H3 Oh here they come. They are delicately skin'd and limb'd.

1665 R. Brathwait Comment Two Tales Chaucer 87 What Sir Raynard, ye fox-skin'd Chuffe.

1727 P. Longueville Hermit 2 These Fish are..skinned like a Mackerel.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 292 The compressed, roundish, rough-skinned Ostracion.., the Sunfish.

1798 Trans. Soc. Arts 16 329 The fruit is of various shapes and sizes,..some smooth skinned.

1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 98 The fair-skinned tribe of martial Germans.

1875 R. Browning Aristophanes' Apol. 117 That black-eyed, brown-skinned country-flavoured wench.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 58 An English official,..having a lean, clean-skinned body.

1893 T. R. R. Stebbing Hist. Crustacea i. 2 The Echinodermata or prickly-skinned animals.

1943 R. Bradbury in Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb. 90/1 The blue-skinned Jovian..said nothing.

1961 D. Lancaster Emancip. French Indochina 4 The Mois..are a handsome, bronze-skinned people akin to the Dyaks of Borneo.

2002 J. Adams Programming Role Playing Games with DirectX iii. vi. 253 A skinned mesh uses the bones to define its shape; as the bones move, the mesh deforms to match.