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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• skin (subs.):
      1. 1. cŭtis, is, f. (prop. the s. of a human being): the surface of the s., summa c., Cels. 5, 28, 17: a thicker and harder s., crassior callosiorque c., Plin. 11, 39, 92 (see below No. 5): said of a serpent, Ov. M. 3, 64. Dimin.: cŭtĭcŭla (the thin external s.): Juv. 11, 203: Pers. Hence also the adj. intercus, cŭtis (between the s.): Cic.
      2. 2. pellis, is, f. (s. of a beast: rarely of a human being, and then only when it is coarse from age, sickness, etc.: hence the aged have "deformem pro cute pellem," Juv. 10, 192: the older word was scortum, Varr. L. L. 7, 5, 96): a dark s., p. atra, Ov. M. 3, 64: a wrinkled s., p. rugosa, Phaedr. 1, 24, 4: a goat-s., p. caprina, Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 82: to dress s.s, p. perficere, Plin. 24, 11, 56: hence p. = a s.-garment: to wear s.s, pellibus uti, vestiri, Caes. B. G. 6, 21; 5, 14; p. gerere, Tac. G. 17: to cast the s. (of a snake), p. ponere, Ov. M. 7, 237: to be all s. and bones, ossa atque p. esse, Pl. Capt. 1, 2, 26: v. skeleton. Dimin.: pellĭcŭla: Cic. Mur. 36, 75.
      3. 3. tergum or tergus, ŏris, n. (prop. the covering of the back, hide): a great part of the Scythians wear s.s, magna Scytharum pars tergis induitur, Sen. Ep. 90, 16: Cels. 7, 25, 2: v. hide.
      4. 4. cŏrium (hide, esp. when prepared for use): the tender s. is hardened into a hide, cutis tenella duratur in corium, App. M. 3, p. 139, ad fin.: v. leather: com. also of a man's s., as we say, "hide," Pl. Rud. 4, 3, 73.
      5. 5. callum (or callus, Cels.: s. hardened by labour or exposure): Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 90.
      6. 6. membrāna: v. membrane, rind: a scaly s., squamea m., Ov. M. 7, 272. Dimin.: membrānŭla, Cels.: membranulum, App.
      7. 7. tŭnĭca (a coating, tegument): to cast its s., ponere t., Lucr. 4, 56 (58) (of the cicala): of the membrane of the eyes, Cels. 7, 7, 14: so too dimin., tunicula, Plin. 26, 12, 76.
      8. 8. in poet. a s. stripped from a beast is exŭviae or spŏlium: Virg. Aen. 2, 473: Ov. M. 9, 113: or is called by the name of the beast itself: as, leo = a lion's s., Mart. 9, 43, 1. Phr.: (i.) made of s.s, pellĭcius, Lampr. Ant. Heliog. 4, ad fin.: Dig.: membranaceus, or -cius, Plin. 10, 61, 81: clad in s.s., pellītus, Liv.: Cic.: to cover a jar with s., pelliculo, Col. 12, 39, 2: like a s., membranaceus, Plin. 16, 31, 55: a fawn-s., nebris, ĭdos, f., Stat. Ach. 1, 609: a sheep-s., mastrūca, Cic. Fragm. (a Sardinian word, whence mastrucatus): a s. garment, scortea vestis, Sen. N. Q. 4, 6, 2. (ii.) near is my shirt nearer is my s., tunica propior pallio est, Pl. Trin. 5, 2, 30: to get off with a whole s., tecto latere abscedere, Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 5.