Meanings of horny skin in English

These rattles seemed to be of dry horny skin that made the buzz-sound when shaken.

He made a bag for it out of the horny skin of the monster he had slain.

Before, their bodies had been overlaid with a horny skin, and enveloped with the cloud of glory.

She suffers also from a horny skin on the palms of her hands, with deep cracks where the natural lines are.

Yet his shoulders and his chest were well-nigh flayed, despite the tough and horny skin of which he made his boast.

He heard what might be the scrape of boots across rock, but that might also have come from horny skin meeting stone.

It is a thick muscle of enormous power, lined inside with a kind of horny skin, so tough that nothing can break through it.

Armored with horny skin, armed with claws and those crushing mandibles of the beetle mouth... a third again as tall as he himself was.

The steel hypodermic, rammed forward by an exploding cartridge, drove through the shark's horny skin, and the great fish erupted in a frenzy of terror.