CUTICLE, noun [Latin , skin, the same as hide, which see.] 1. The scarf-skin; the thin exterior coat of the skin, which rises in a blister; a thin pellucid membrane covering the true skin. 2. The thin external covering of the bark of a plant. 3. A thin skin formed on the surface of liquor.
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