I.the skin.
I. Prop., Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 18, 3; Cels. 2, 8; Plin. 28, 12, 50, § 183 sq.; Quint. 11, 3, 78; Hor. C. 1, 28, 13; id. A. P. 476; Sen. Ep. 95, 16; 123, 7 al.—In plur., Plin. 6, 31, 36, § 200; 11, 37, 45, § 128.—
b. Prov.: curare cutem, to take care of one's skin, i. e. to make much of one's self, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 29; 1, 4, 15 (for which pelliculam curare, id. S. 2, 5, 38): “cogere aliquem intra suam cutem,” Sen. Ep. 9, 13: “cute perditus,” sick in one's body, Pers. 1, 23: “ego te intus et in cute novi,” I know you thoroughly, id. 3, 30.—
B. Transf.
2. A soft coating, covering of any thing; the skin, rind, surface (several times in the Nat. Hist. of Pliny): “casiae,” Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 95: “nucleorum,” id. 15, 10, 9, § 36: “uvarum,” id. 15, 28, 34, § “112: lauri,” id. 27, 10, 60, § 84: “summa terrae,” id. 20, 19, 79, § 207.—
II. Trop., the external appearance, surface, outside: “tenerā quādam elocutionis cute,” Quint. 5, 12, 18: “imaginem virtutis effingere et solam ut sic dixerim cutem,” id. 10, 2, 15; Gell. 18, 4, 2.
