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.