leather

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• Leather

  ·noun The <<Skin>>. II. Leather ·vt To beat, as with a thong of leather. III. Leather ·noun The sk...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Leather

  A girdle of, worn by Elijah (2 Kings 1:8) and John the Baptist (Matt. 3:4). Leather was employed bot...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• leather

  To lose leather; to be galled with riding on horseback, or, as the Scotch express it, to be saddle s...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• leather

  See lather, to. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Leather

  The notices of leather in the Bible are singularly few; indeed the word occurs but twice in the Auth...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Ooze leather

  ·add. ·- Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; ·esp., su...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Leather Lane

  North out of Holborn at No.128 (P.O. Directory). The extreme south-western corner only is in Farring...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• leather-head

  n. another name for the Friar-bird (q.v.), Philemon corniculatus, Lath.See Tropidorhynchus. 1847. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leather-jacket

  n. 1) A name applied popularly and somewhat confusedly to varioustrees, on account of the toughness...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leather-wood

  n. i.q. pinkwood (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• leather-jacket

  A tropical fish with a very thick skin. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• scupper-leather

  A flap-valve nailed over a scupper-hole, serving to keep water from getting in, yet letting it out. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book