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Making designs on the skin
Answer for the clue "Making designs on the skin ", 9 letters:
tattooing
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Word definitions for tattooing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tattoo \Tat*too"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tattooed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tattooing .] [Of Polynesian origin; cf. New Zealand ta to tattoo, tatu puncturation (in Otaheite).] To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of beating out a rhythm on a drum 2 The act of marking the skin with a tattoo vb. (present participle of tattoo English)
Usage examples of tattooing.
Tomorrow, in the morning, they would come and take him to the tattooing block.
COMPLETING his lecture with the statement that Luke was a specialist in tattooing, Guffy proceeded to the next platform.
Luke paused in his tattooing to display his pictured back to the crowd while Cap Guffy lectured at the platform.
Willy who had fainted dead away the first time the needle touched him and spent the whole tattooing time dead to the world.
The old tattooing had returned to his face, blood red against the pallor of the skin, scarlet instead of black, truly a tiger mask in color as well as design.
And as the rage within Foyle died away, Jisbella saw the blood-red tattooing fade and disappear.
For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart.
Can you, above all, forget to talk about that great barrel of a man, thick-set, rough and ready, with brass rings and tattooings, eh?
He most loyally described him as a thick-set man, but when I said that did not sound as romantic as one could wish, he cried out: 'Ah, but you should have seen him in battle, calmly stalking the poop deck in his red velvet, and the cannon balls flying round him as thick as the tattooings on his own arms and chest.
I was amazed when he stripped, for his whole body was covered with a perfect panorama of tattooings, with a big blue Venus right over his heart.
Methodical to a fault, the stsho, tedious and full of endless subtle meanings in their pastel ornament and the tattooings on their pearly hides.