outskin

plural outskins

1. An outer skin; surface.

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

   1948, Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening

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   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.

   1884, Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine, volume 8

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

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

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

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

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

   2005, Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar

2. anatomyThe external skin.

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

   1938, George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158

3. A skin or pelt of some special description.

present singular third person outskins · participle present outskinning · participle past outskinned · past outskinned

1. transitiveTo surpass in skinning.

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

   2009, Mike Keenan, The Shadows of Horses