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It is usually round, and consists of pulpy carpels, commonly ten in number, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.

The skin of an ox, or leather made from it.

An Italian game, played with a large leather ball.

(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]

A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore.

reading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. Patent leather, a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work. -- Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. -- Patent right. (a) The…

To grain (leather) so as to produce a surface covered with small rounded prominences.

A customs duty on skins of leather.

Having a stalk or petiole; as, a petioleate leaf; the petiolated abdomen of certain Hymenoptera.

Having the form of a pileus or cap; pileate.

e Pinefinch, in the Vocabulary. -- Pine grosbeak (Zoöl.), a large grosbeak (Pinicola enucleator), which inhabits the northern parts of both hemispheres. The adult male is more or less tinged with red. -- Pine lizard (Zoöl.), a small, very active, mottled gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), native of the Middle States…

A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings of the drapery. Addison.

ication of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plast…

A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. Dryden.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

Prussian leather. [Obs.] Dryden.

rs having a tubular, sharp-edged steel punch attached to one of the jaws, for perforating leather, paper, and the like.

embroidered and puckered border; a hem or fringe, often of gold or silver twist; also, a pleat or fold, as of a band. A triumphant chariot made of carnation velvet, enriched withpurl and pearl. Sir P. Sidney .

creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.