Word Meanings - LEATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather

Additional info about word: LEATHER

1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. 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 , a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp. -- Leather jacket. A California carangoid fish . A trigger fish . -- Leather flower , a climbing plant of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color. -- Leather leaf , a low shrub , growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves. -- Leather plant , one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves. -- Leather turtle. See Leatherback. -- Vegetable leather. An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. Linen cloth coated with India rubber. Ure.

Related words: (words related to LEATHER)

• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• TAWERY
  A place where skins are tawed.
• TANNATE
  A salt of tannic acid.
• TAWER
  One who taws; a dresser of white leather.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• TANNIN
  See TANNIC
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• RELATE
  1. To bring back; to restore. Abate your zealous haste, till morrow next again Both light of heaven and strength of men relate. Spenser. 2. To refer; to ascribe, as to a source. 3. To recount; to narrate; to tell over. This heavy act with heavy
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• STANNYEL; STANYEL
  See STANNEL
• CHIDESTER
  A female scold.
• STANNINE; STANNITE
  A mineral of a steel
• BRITANNIC
  Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her Britannic Majesty.
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• PRELATIZE
  To bring under the influence of prelacy. Palfrey.
• STANNARY
  Of or pertaining to tin mines, or tin works. The stannary courts of Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record. Blackstone.
• MISRELATION
  Erroneous relation or narration. Abp. Bramhall.
• STANNATE
  A salt of stannic acid.