2. To cover with skin, or as with skin; hence, to cover
superficially.
[1913 Webster]
It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. To strip of money or property; to cheat. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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