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ˈscarf-skin
[scarf n.1, in the sense of light outer covering.]
The outer layer of the skin; the epidermis, cuticle.
1615[see cuticle 1]. 1774Goldsmith Nat. Hist. (1862) I. xi. 215 The blackness lay in the epidermis, or scarf-skin, which was burnt up like leather. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 660 Not a hair Ruffled upon the scarf-skin. 1882Encycl. 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. transf.
1669Addr. Young Gentry of Eng. 53 Raise up but the skarfe skin which covers this fine mould. 1796New Ann. Reg. 144 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. 1847H. Miller First Impr. Eng. xi. (1857) 175 Let us..strip the vast landscape here of its upper integuments,..beginning first with the vegetable mould—the scarf-skin of the country. |