| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take money |
| Synonyms: | fleece, make someone pay through the nose, overcharge |
| Main Entry: | pare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | peel, trim |
| Synonyms: | carve, clip, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, decorticate, decrease, dock, flay, knock off, lop, lower, mark down, prune, reduce, scalp, scrape, shave, shear, skin, skive, slash, strip, thin, uncover |
| Antonyms: | cover |
| Main Entry: | skin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove outer covering |
| Synonyms: | abrade, bare, bark, cast, cut off, decorticate, excoriate, exuviate, flay, gall, graze, hull, husk, lay bare, pare, peel, pull off, remove, rind, scale, scalp, scrape, shave, shed, shuck, slough, strip, trim |
| Notes: | skin is the general term for an animal's outer covering; the layer of fur, hair, or wool is the coat; hide is the tough skin of certain large animals that is tanned and made into leather; pelt is untanned skin of fur-bearing animals |
| Antonyms: | cover |
| Main Entry: | flay |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove skin, bark, hide, etc. |
| Synonyms: | excoriate, peel, scalp, skin |
| Main Entry: | skull |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | brain |
| Synonyms: | cranium, head, mind, scalp, skullcap, vertex |
| Notes: | a scull is a long-handled oar mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward - or a racing shell propelled by one, two, or four rowers each using a pair of sculls; a skull is the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates the skull is the bony framework while the cranium is all the bones of the skull except for one, the mandible/lower jaw |
| Main Entry: | noodle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | head |
| Synonyms: | attic, belfry, brain, coconut, cranium, crown*, dome, gray matter, noddle, noggin, pate, poll, scalp, skull, think tank, thinker*, top story, upper story, upstairs |