outskin
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4ADJ.
touching
VERB + OUTSKIN
remove
OUTSKIN + NOUN
cloves
ADV.
only, then
Definitions
noun
An outer skin; surface.
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.
But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.
The external skin.
They suffered from outskin-chafed necks and wrists, […]
A skin or pelt of some special description.
verb
To surpass in skinning.
There was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.
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4One 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.
WiktionaryBut this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.
WiktionaryThe crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin.
WiktionaryThere was a big woman in the camp and she could outskin any of the men.
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