fish-skin
(ˈfɪʃskɪn)
[f. fish n.1]
1. The skin of a fish.
| 1651 J. Hall Grounds of Monarchy ii. 31 Hanging fish skins about the wals of the Chamber. 1759 Colebrooke in Phil. Trans. LI. 43 A piece of old wainscoat..was smoothed with a fish-skin. 1859 Lowell Biglow Papers Gloss., Fish⁓skin, used in New England to clarify coffee. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 15/1 The last thing in leather is pearl-tinted fish-skin. |
2. attrib. and Comb.: fish-skin disease (also shortened fish-skin), ichthyosis; fish-skin grain, grain (in leather) resembling the skin of a fish.
| 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3896/4 He..had about him a Fish skin Plaister-Box with Silver Instruments. 1814 T. Bateman Cutan. Dis. (ed. 3) 49 The Ichthyosis, or fish-skin disease. 1834 Good Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 463 Lepidosis Ichthyiasis. Fish-skin. 1879 Eng. Mech. 11 Feb. 534/2 Steel rollers, for making the ‘fish skin’ grain. |