To forfeit one’s skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton.
To forfeit one’s skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton.