having the skin scraped off; " skinned knees and scraped elbows"

Covered with a skin.

But such leather- skinned men as these were more tender to their horses than to themselves. – Bull Hunter by Max Brand

Then Hawksworth turned to see a dark- skinned man bearing a large silver basin down the veranda. – The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

So a captain of Mousquetaires might have done; but the face was dark- skinned, the cheek- bones were high, the black eyes large, fierce, and restless. – Audrey by Mary Johnston

The man who had leaned over the foot of the bed lay on the ground just as he had fallen, shot dead through the heart, and a child, dark- skinned and thin, who had rushed in at the sound of the report, was sobbing passionately with her arms wound around him. – A Monk of Cruta by E. Phillips Oppenheim

The travellers soon made their appearance; a strange- looking set of red- skinned, black- eyed Indians, wrapped in dirty, many- colored blankets. – The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; The Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

Why we shall be skinned alive if we have to pay all this money back to Government. – Castle Richmond by Anthony Trollope

It is you who are thin- skinned. – Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009

She says all Meadville is witness to the way she's skinned 'em down to the bone. – Susan Clegg and a Man in the House by Anne Warner

He first sent for " 'Possum Jim," an aged and very serious colored man, who worshipped " Mistah Fiel'" because of the sympathy Eugene never withheld from the dark- skinned children of the race. – Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions by Slason Thompson

" There is no harm in having it," he observed; " and it may just come in convanient if we get the chance of giving our rid- skinned frinds the slip." – Afar in the Forest by W.H.G. Kingston

She was exceedingly pretty in her way, red haired, white skinned; and her eyes seemed to be a very lovely Sevres blue. – Quick Action by Robert W. Chambers

Remember that time I got skinned out of ten thousand bucks on the land deal? – Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan

Who skinned the cripple? – A Dog with a Bad Name by Talbot Baines Reed

At noon with Creed to my Lord Crew's, and there dined; and here was a very fine- skinned lady dined, the daughter of my Lord Roberts, and also a fine lady, Mr. John Parkhurst his wife, that was but a boy the other day. – Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright by Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

I've skinned too many not to know. – Sonny, A Christmas Guest by Ruth McEnery Stuart

And the streets are filled with dark- skinned, slow- walking poor. – The Moghul by Thomas Hoover

The Honourable R. Drummond, C. S., killed a tiger 11 feet 9 inches, measured before being skinned. – Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert A. Sterndale

It was noticed that he cast frequent and admiring glances at a handsome red- skinned maiden who accompanied old Spotted Tail's daughter. – An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

The tail was always skinned and left on the hide. – The Extermination of the American Bison by William T. Hornaday