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noun

Leather n.

1.

The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.

2.

The skin. (Ironical or Sportive) Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather.

Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.

Leather carp (Zool.), a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent.

Leather jacket. (Zool.)

(a)

A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus).

(b)

A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis).

Leather flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.

Leather leaf (Bot.), a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves.

Leather plant (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves.

Leather turtle. (Zool.) See Leatherback.

Vegetable leather.

(a)

An imitation of leather made of cotton waste.

(b)

Linen cloth coated with India rubber.

verb

Leather v. t. (past & past part. leathered; pres. part. leathering) To beat, as with a thong of leather. (Obs. or Colloq.)

adjective

leather adj. Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.

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Etymology of 'Leather'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Leather" Quotes from Famous Books

... like to carry their pets with them on a journey will be glad to know how to make this pretty and convenient bag, by means of which Fido and Mutt can travel like princes. The bag is made of black leather, and is closed on the side with a lock and key and clamps. The pocket for holding the dog is fifteen inches wide and nine inches and a half high. The front is cut out, leaving a margin on the edges an inch and a half wide, and the opening is filled with a wire screen, ...

— Harper's Young People, December 9, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... the tea with shaking hands and awkward, half-blind movements. It was close on dinner-time, but she did not notice it. He obliged her to drink some, and then he settled himself in his leather arm-chair. He went over his engagements for the evening. In half an hour he ought to be dining with Canon Glynn to meet an old college friend. At eleven he had arranged to see a young clergyman whose conscience was harrying ...

— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley

... was about a foot long, with a leathern thong to the handle, with something of a spring in the shaft, and with the oval loaded knot at the end cased with leathern thongs very minutely and skilfully cut. They who understood modern work in leather gave it as their opinion that the weapon had been made in Paris. It was considered that Mealyus had brought it with him, and concealed it in preparation for this occasion. If the police could succeed in tracing the bludgeon into his hands, or in proving that he had ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... meat tender. Some say that it is but necessary to hang an old hen among the broad leaves to restore to it the youth and freshness of a chicken. In some parts of South America papaw juice is rubbed over meat, and is said to change "apparent leather to tender and juicy steak." Other folks envelop the meat in the leaves and obtain a similar effect. Science, to ascertain the verity or otherwise of the popular belief applied certain tests, the results of which demonstrated that all the favourable allegations ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... By the altitude of a chopine.] A chioppine is a high shoe, or rather clog, worn by the Italians. Venice was more famous for them than any other place. They are described as having been made of wood covered with coloured leather, and sometimes even half a yard high, their altitude being proportioned to the rank of the lady, so that they could not walk ...

— Hamlet • William Shakespeare

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