Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CU'TI-CLE, n. [L. cuticula, dim. of cutis, skin, the same as hide – which see.]

1. The scarf-skin; the thin exterior coat of the skin, which rises in a blister; a thin pellucid membrane covering the true skin.
2. The thin external covering of the bark of a plant. – Darwin.
3. A thin skin formed on the surface of liquor. – Newton.