obduce

verb

obduce

verb

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

1

Obsolete To cover.

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.1677, Sir Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind:

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