outskin

outskin

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ skin.

Noun

outskin (plural outskins)

1. An outer skin; surface.
   • 1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine (volume 8)

     One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin, then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.

   • 1896, Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest

     But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.

   • 1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening

     The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.

   • 1962, Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24:

     Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly […]

   • 2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar:

     Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman […]

2. (anatomy) The external skin.
   • 1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158:

     They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]

3. A skin or pelt of some special description.

Verb

outskin (third-person singular simple present outskins, present participle outskinning, simple past and past participle outskinned)

1. (transitive) To surpass in skinning.
   • 2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses:

     There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.