SKINNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skinned mean? 

• SKINNED (adjective)
  The adjective SKINNED has 1 sense:

1. having skin of a specified kind

  Familiarity information: SKINNED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKINNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having skin of a specified kind

Similar:

smooth-skinned (having smooth skin)

velvety-skinned (having skin like velvet)

Antonym:

skinless (having no skin)

 Context examples 

And yet Grey Beaver was as a child-god among these white- skinned ones.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Individuals who have the heaviest constitutive pigmentation, especially dark skinned black individuals.

(Fitzpatrick Skin Type VI, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The pails were already skinned over with young ice when he picked them up and made for the cabin.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

A little red-skinned wife and a cave of our own were freely offered to each of us if we would but forget our own people and dwell forever upon the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The white-skinned, fair-haired savages who created that terrible pantheon were of the same fibre as he.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

By nature he must have been a fair-skinned man, for his upper brow, where his cap came over it, was as white as mine, and his close-cropped hair was tawny.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He would build a patriarchal grass house like Tati's, and have it and the valley and the schooner filled with dark-skinned servitors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A benign skin condition commonly seen in dark-skinned individuals that is characterized by multiple small hyperpigmented papular lesions resembling seborrheic keratosis on the face and upper body.

(Dermatosis Papulosa Nigra, NCI Thesaurus)

The man who entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating grey eyes.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly: there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape: no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)