Word Meanings - TANNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Related words: (words related to TANNER)
- 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
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