Leather /(lĕth"ẽr)/
Leath·er
Leather
n.
- The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
- The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
Phrases & Compounds
- 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 (Oligoplites saurus).
- Leather flower
- a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.
- Leather leaf
- a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), 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.
Leather
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Leathered; p. pr. & vb. n. Leathering
- To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.]
leather
a.
- Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.