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The leatherback.

ssue binding the inflamed surfaces together. Lymph corpuscles (Anat.), finely granular nucleated cells, identical with the colorless blood corpuscles, present in the lymph and chyle. -- Lymph duct (Anat.), a lymphatic. -- Lymph heart. See Note under Heart, n., 1.

ormous size and curious shape of the nose membrane and ears. -- Lyre turtle (Zoöl.), the leatherback.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

One of the bits of leather or colored bunting which are placed upon a sounding line at intervals of from two to five fathoms. The unmarked fathoms are called "deeps." A man of mark, a conspicuous or eminent man. -- To make one's mark. (a) To sign, as a letter or other writing, by making a cross or other mark. (b) To m…

armor, armor composed of small lozenge-shaped scales of metal fastened on a foundation of leather or quilted cloth.

chine for cutting meat into fine pieces for toothless people; also, a machine for cutting leather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.

A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one- celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner. Haeckel.

Leatherwood.

A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the Moors.

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

isonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and calico bush. See Kalmia. -- Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling leather in its texture. -- Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium (T. Alpinum). -- Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone strata below the coa…

One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.

er. Neat's-foot, an oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.

One of the nervures, or veins, in the wings of insects. Nerve cell (Anat.), one of the nucleated cells with which nerve fibers are connected; a ganglion cell. -- Nerve fiber (Anat.), one of the fibers of which nerves are made up. These fibers are either medullated or nonmedullated. in both kinds the essential part is…

of wood used by boys in playing hockey. I think I'm as hard as a nur, and as tough as whitleather. W. Howitt.

An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.

Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.