wallaby-skin

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• Wallaby

  ·noun Any one of numerous species of kangaroos belonging to the genus Halmaturus, native of Australi...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• wallaby

  I. n. a name used for the smaller kindsof Kangaroos of the genus Macropus (q.v.), formerlyclassed a...

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

• Skin

  ·vi To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over. II. Skin ·noun A vessel made of skin, used...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• skin

  1) In a bad skin; out of temper, in an ill humour. Thin-skinned: touchy, peevish. 2) A purse. Frisk...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• skin

  This term is frequently used for the inside planking of a vessel, the outside being the case. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• banded-wallaby

  n. sometimes called Banded-Kangaroo. See Lagostrophus and Wallaby. ...

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

• hare-wallaby

  n. See hare-kangaroo, wallaby, and lagorchestes. ...

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

• rock-wallaby

  n. the popular name for anyanimal of the genus Petrogale (q.v.). There are sixspecies – – Brush-tai...

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

• wallaby-bush

  n. a tall shrub or tree, Beyeria viscosa, Miq., N.O. Euphorbiaceae.Same as the Pinkwood of Tasmania...

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

• wallaby-grass

  n. an Australian grass, Danthonia penicillata, F. v. M., N.O. Gramineae. 1889. J. H. Maiden, `Usef...

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

• Skin-deep

  ·adj Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• blue skin

  A person begotten on a black woman by a white man. One of the blue squadron; any one having a cross ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• skin flint

  An avaricious man or woman, ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• kangaroo-skin

  n. either the leather for thetanned hide, or the complete fur for rugs and wraps. 1806. `History o...

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

• skin-flint

  A niggardly, close-fisted person--one so parsimoniously mean, that he would perform that operation w...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• cat's-skin

  A light partial current of air, as with the cat's-paw. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• nail-tailed wallaby

  n. See onychogale. ...

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

• calf-skin fiddle

  A drum. To smack calf's skin; to kiss the book in taking an oath. It is held by the St. Giles's casu...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• wallaby track, on the

  or On the Wallaby,or Out on the Wallaby or simply Wallaby ,as adj. [slang]. Tramping the country ...

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

• Skin, Coats made of

  (Gen. 3:21). Skins of rams and badgers were used as a covering for the tabernacle (Ex. 25:5; Num. 4:...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• tormenter of sheep skin

  A drummer. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• skin of a sail

  The outside part when a sail is furled. To furl in a clean skin, is the habit of a good seaman. ♦ ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Hospital for Diseases of the Skin

  On the east side of New Bridge Street, in Farringdon Ward Within (O.S. 1880). ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• by the skin of one's teeth

  When a man has made a narrow escape from any dilemma, it is a common remark to say, that he has save...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.