A skinne: a thin rynd. Aegra cutis tumet. Pers. Adsiccata cutis. Lucan. Arida cutis se laxat. Iuuen. Atra cutis. Stat. Can cellata, Vide CANCELLI. Candida. Plin. Direpra. Ouid. Dura. Ouid. Maculosa. Plin. Tenax. Claud. Tenuis. Ouid. Adducit macies cutem. Ouid. Maketh the skinne shrinke. Curare cutem. Iuuen. To make good cheere. Curata cute homo. Hor. Fat and welfed. Riget cutis. Stat. Rumpere cutem, Celf. Finditur cutis. Cels. Cutem obducere. Plin. Ad cutem tonsus. Cels. Polled to the skinne. Tenera elocutionis cute habitum orationis virilem operir. Quintil. To couer a graue stile with a thinne cloke of eloquence. Cutis arboris. Plin. The barke. Cutis terræ. Plin. In summa terræ cute. The vpper part. Cutis vuæ & cerasi. Pli. The pil or skinne.

I. Prop., Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3; Cels. 2, 8; Plin. 28, 12, 50, 183 sq.; Quint. 11, 3, 78; Hor. C. 1, 28, 13; id. A. P. 476; Sen. Ep. 95, 16; 123, 7 al.—In plur., Plin. 6, 31, 36, 200; 11, 37, 45, 128.—

b. Prov.: curare cutem, to take care of one's skin, i. e. to make much of one's self, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 29; 1, 4, 15 (for which pelliculam curare, id. S. 2, 5, 38): cogere aliquem intra suam cutem, Sen. Ep. 9, 13: cute perditus, sick in one's body, Pers. 1, 23: ego te intus et in cute novi, I know you thoroughly, id. 3, 30.—

B. Transf.

1. Hide, leather: calceus est sartā terque quaterque cute, Mart. 1, 103, 6.—

2. A soft coating, covering of any thing; the skin, rind, surface (several times in the Nat. Hist. of Pliny): casiae, Plin. 12, 19, 43, 95: nucleorum, id. 15, 10, 9, 36: uvarum, id. 15, 28, 34, 112: lauri, id. 27, 10, 60, 84: summa terrae, id. 20, 19, 79, 207.—

II. Trop., the external appearance, surface, outside: tenerā quādam elocutionis cute, Quint. 5, 12, 18: imaginem virtutis effingere et solam ut sic dixerim cutem, id. 10, 2, 15; Gell. 18, 4, 2.