smooth-skinned, a.
[f. smooth a. 15.]
Having a smooth skin.
| 1611 Tourneur Ath. Trag. ii. v, I do not like these phlegmatic smooth-skinned, soft-fleshed fellows. 1668 Charleton Onomast. 128 Galeus Lævis,..the smooth-skinned Dog-fish. 1689 Lond. Gaz. No. 2454/4 A smooth skinn'd little Spaniel Bitch. 1798 Trans. Soc. Arts XVI. 329 The fruit is of various shapes and sizes,..some smooth skinned. 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 41 The Homelyn Ray is a smooth-skinned species. |