单词 | scarf-skin |
释义 | scarf-skinn. a. The outer layer of the skin; the epidermis, cuticle. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > layer of skin > [noun] > specific layers epiderma1582 outskin1583 cutis1605 cuticle1615 scarf-skin1615 cuticula1621 epidermis1626 flesh side1630 derma1706 scarfy skin1744 rete mucosum1754 hypoderma1826 chorion1828 dermis1830 corium1835 derm1835 epiderm1835 flesh1839 rete1842 grain1851 hypoderm1855 stratum corneum1857 grain-side1858 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 61 The Scarfe-skin or Cuticle being voide of sense itselfe. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 235 The blackness lay in the epidermis, or scarf-skin, which was burnt up like leather. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 85 Not a hair Ruffled upon the scarfskin. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 383/2 The first operation to which they [sc. hides] are subjected is depilation, which removes, not only the hair, but also the scarf-skin. b. transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > coating or covering with a layer > [noun] > a coat or covering layer > top or superficial facing1586 scarf-skin1669 heading1779 header1868 fronting1886 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 53 Raise up but the skarfe skin which covers this fine mould. 1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 Misc. Papers 144/2 By making four or five small longitudinal incisions with a sharp-pointed knife..on one side only of the head or pod, just through the scarf-skin. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. xi. 194 Let us..strip the vast landscape here of its upper integuments,..beginning first with the vegetable mould,—the scarf-skin of the country. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1615 |
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