1. (n.) The peel or skin.

2. (v. i.) To be peeled; to peel off in flakes.

3. (v. t.) To deprive of hair; to make bald.

4. (v. t.) To peel; to make by removing the skin.

5. (v. t. & i.) To rob; to plunder; to pillage; to peel. See Peel, to plunder.

6. (n.) A medicine in the form of a little ball, or small round mass, to be swallowed whole.

7. (n.) Figuratively, something offensive or nauseous which must be accepted or endured.