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Word Meanings - TANNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.

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  • WHOSESOEVER
    The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • OCCUPATION
    1. The act or process of occupying or taking possession; actual possession and control; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant. 2. That which occupies or engages the time
  • 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.
  • CONVERTIBLY
    In a convertible manner.
  • 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.
  • CONVERTIBLE
    1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable.
  • CONVERTEND
    Any proposition which is subject to the process of conversion; -- so called in its relation to itself as converted, after which process it is termed the conversae. See Converse, n. .
  • 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
  • LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
    An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
  • WHOSE
    The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which. Whose daughter art thou tell me, I pray thee. Gen. xxiv. 23. The question whose solution I require. Dryden.
  • LEATHERN
    Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
  • LEATHERHEAD
    The friar bird.
  • CONVERTIBLENESS
    The state of being convertible; convertibility.
  • CONVERTER
    A retort, used in the Bessemer process, in which molten cast iron is decarburized and converted into steel by a blast of air forced through the liquid metal. (more info) 1. One who converts; one who makes converts.
  • CONVERT
    To change into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 8. To turn into another language; to translate. Which story . . . Catullus more elegantly converted. B. Jonson. Converted guns, cast-iron guns
  • LEATHERNECK
    The sordid friar bird of Australia .
  • CONVERTITE
    A convert. Shak.
  • CHIDESTER
    A female scold.
  • INCONVERTED
    Not turned or changed about. Sir T. Browne.
  • RECONVERTIBLE
    Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition.
  • UNCONVERTED
    1. Not converted or exchanged. 2. Not changed in opinion, or from one faith to another. Specifically: -- Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker. Unregenerate; sinful; impenitent. Baxter.
  • PHASE CONVERTER
    A machine for converting an alternating current into an alternating current of a different number of phases and the same frequency.
  • INCONVERTIBLE
    Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh.
  • OVERLEATHER
    Upper leather. Shak.
  • INCONVERTIBLENESS
    Inconvertibility.
  • INTERCONVERTIBLE
    Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible.
  • INCONVERTIBLY
    In an inconvertible manner.
  • APHIDES
    See APHIS

 

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