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Obduce

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To cover. obsolete

    "Animal exhibits its Face in the native colour of its Skin but Man; all others are covered with Feathers, or Hair, or a Cortex that is obduced over the Cutis as in Elephants and some sort of Indian Dogs."

Etymology

From Latin obducere, obductum; ob (see ob-) + ducere (“to lead”).

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