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Word Meanings - EPIDERMIS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.

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  • OUTER
    Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
  • LAYERING
    A propagating by layers. Gardner.
  • OUTERLY
    1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
  • CUTICLE
    The scarfskin or epidermis. See Skin.
  • OUTERMOST
    Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
  • LAYER
    That which is laid; a stratum; a bed; one thickness, course, or fold laid over another; as, a layer of clay or of sand in the earth; a layer of bricks, or of plaster; the layers of an onion. 3. A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached
  • DERMIS
    The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and enderon. See Skin, and Illust. in Appendix.
  • SCARFSKIN
    See EPIDERMIS
  • NONSENSITIVE
    Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.
  • WAYLAYER
    One who waylays another.
  • SHOUTER
    One who shouts.
  • SOUTER
    A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
  • TRACKLAYER
    Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. -- Track"lay`ing, n.
  • ENDODERMIS
    A layer of cells forming a kind of cuticle inside of the proper cortical layer, or surrounding an individual fibrovascular bundle.
  • FLOUTER
    One who flouts; a mocker.
  • PLOUTER
    To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
  • TOUTER
    One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
  • DISPLAYER
    One who, or that which, displays.
  • EPIDERMIS
    The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
  • SOUTERLY
    Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
  • POUTER
    A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
  • CLOUTERLY
    Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
  • ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
    To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.
  • PLAYER
    1. One who plays, or amuses himself; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler. Shak. 2. One who plays any game. 3. A dramatic actor. Shak. 4. One who plays on an instrument of music. "A cunning player on a harp." 1 Sam. xvi. 16. 5. A gamester;
  • SLAYER
    One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

 

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