Noun

(en noun)

The overside or up-side of a flat object such as a table, or of a liquid.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=Foreword citation , passage=A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,

The outside hull of a tangible object.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-11, volume=407, issue=8835, page=80, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= The climate of Tibet: Pole-land , passage=Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across.}}

(lb) Outward or external appearance.

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*(Vicesimus Knox) (1752-1821)

*:Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface .

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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.

The locus of an equation (especially one with exactly two degrees of freedom) in a more-than-two-dimensional space.

(lb) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion.

:(Stocqueler)

Noun

(en noun)

An outer skin; surface.

*1884 , Brotherhood of locomotive firemen and enginemen's magazine: Volume 8:

One way to prepare onion flavoring for a vegetable soup is to take a large onion, remove the outskin , then stick cloves into the onion, and bake until it is nicely browned.

*1896 , Sir John Pentland Mahaffy, Greek life and thought from the death of Alexander to the Roman conquest :

But this is only touching the outskin of a very curious subject, to which I hope, some day, to return.

*1948 , Charles Matthias Goethe, Geogardening :

The crust therefore went the way of the onion's outskin .

*1962 , Aircraft production: precision engineering : light engineering: Volume 24:

Tacking the outskin to the frame of the inner skin during final assembly [...]

*2005 , Samuel Ngun Ling, Communicating Christ in Myanmar :

Could the outskin or husk of the Christian message that is the Western and Graeco-Roman [...]

(anatomy) The external skin.

*1938 , George Smith, George Henry Lewes, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Cornhill magazine: Volume 158 :

They suffered from outskin -chafed necks and wrists, [...]

A skin or pelt of some special description.