pachydermatous

Cutler, the British officer, was pachydermatous to ideas, but punctilious about behaviour.

A line like "I know what you're saying, 'Sure, this man can penetrate the rich, red interior of said melon, but can he penetrate the even thicker pachydermatous outer-melon layer?"

Pachydermatous eosinophilic dermatitis is a cutaneous condition observed in South African black teenage girls, and characterized by generalized pruritic papules, hypertrophic genital lesions and peripheral eosinophilia.

Ricky Jay can throw a playing card into a watermelon rind (which he refers to as the "thick, pachydermatous outer melon layer" of "the most prodigious of household fruits") from ten paces.

As the Megarite peeled off the close-fitting garment, Onami stepped out of the booth and gave her pachydermatous hide a clinical once-over, making sure the drysuit was proving effective at keeping it moist.

I expatiated upon the delights of an Ethiopian existence; I grew rapturous over the remembered ecstasy of mud-baths and lunches upon succulent lotus-stems by riversides where Nature kept free restaurant for pachydermatous gentlemen forever.

Farther on, the pachydermatous lophiodon (crested toothed), a gigantic tapir, hides behind the rocks to dispute its prey with the anoplotherium (unarmed beast), a strange creature, which seemed a compound of horse, rhinoceros, camel, and hippopotamus.

A dozen of red partridges and rays were speedily brought down, and Glenarvan also managed very cleverly to kill a TAY-TETRE, or peccary, a pachydermatous animal, the flesh of which is excellent eating.

Farther on, the pachydermatous Lophrodon, that gigantic tapir, which concealed itself behind rocks, ready to do battle for its prey with the Anoplotherium, a singular animal partaking of the nature of the rhinoceros, the horse, the hippopotamus and the camel.

The impossibility of piercing the Christian pharisee holding the traditions of the elders, in any vital part--so pachydermatous is he to any spiritual argument--is a sore trial to the old Adam still unslain in lovers of the truth.

Like Mr. Jay, Mr. Walton uses antique and sizable words - "Brobdingnagian" (Mr. Walton), "pachydermatous" (Mr. Jay) - wears pinstripe suits and combines his act with professorial asides on magic history.

"Boys must wreck cars," summarized Tommy Walkowiak, 24, a boiler repairman who brought a pachydermatous Ford, a 1976 Country Squire station wagon, to Riverhead Raceway here this Saturday night, after working a month on the relic in front of his Queens apartment.

He has also demonstrated his fabled ability as a user of "cards as weapons," by variously flinging them in boomerang fashion, cutting them with scissors in midair, tossing them across the stage at a row of wind-up animals and slinging them with such velocity that they stick into the "pachydermatous" of a watermelon.