2. Verb. (third-person singular of skin) ¹
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Definition of Skins
1. skin [v] - See also: skin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skins
Literary usage of Skins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1855)
"DAVID SAMUEL & SONS, of Philadelphia, have furnished for publication the sub.
joined account of the import of fur skins into London, from September 1, 1864, ..."
2. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association, Richard Rogers Bowker, Charles Ammi Cutter (1907)
"It is very easy to say ten dozen skins or, as we put it, we make over 300 dozen per
... We have had a quantity of India goat skins tanned for us by Benj. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Others, when the skins are strained and in a semi-dry condition, apply neatsfoot
or other oil, ... The skins tanned as above are largely dressed as morocco. ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"In the more modern process of liming, the skins are treated with a mixture of
lime and sodium sulphide, a chemical obtained in the manufacture of washing ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"skins in an unprepared moist condition are readily disintegrated and destroyed
by putrefaction, and if they are dried raw they become hard, horny, ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"An agreement between A and В that In consideration that A should furnish money
to В to buy skins, В would tan them and return them to A for sale crc ..."
7. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1802)
"Musquash skins, 700 Elk skins, '"•' 4600 Otter skins. ... Mink skins, izco Deer
skins, dressed, 500 Buffalo robes, and a quantity of ..."
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