[L.: see prec.]

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  1.  = CUTICLE 1, 2; now esp. of certain lower organisms.

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1621.  Burton, Anat. Mel., I. i. II. iii. The skinne couers the rest, and hath Cuticulam or a little skinne vnder it.

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1718.  J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos. (1730), I. iv. § 14. The Cuticula, or upper Skin.

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1880.  Huxley, Crayfish, iv. 175. The tough, outer coat, which has been termed the cuticula.

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  † 2.  = CUTICLE 3. Obs.

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1662.  R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 113. 184. Let it vapor away til thou see it covered wit a Culecula, or thin scum.

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