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Webster 1913 Edition
Leather
Leath′er
(lĕth′ẽr)
, Noun.
[OE.
lether
, AS. leðer
; akin to D. leder
, leêr
, G. leder
, OHG. ledar
, Icel. leðr
, Sw. läder
, Dan. læder
.] 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]
☞ 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. See Illust. under
– Carp
. 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.
Ure.
Leath′er
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Leathered
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Leathering
.] To beat, as with a thong of leather.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
G. Eliot.