Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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scud

The remnants of epithelial tissues, hair pigments, glands, lime soaps, etc., left in the grain layer of a skin following unhairing. See also:BATING ; SCUDDING .






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