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A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; -- used by…

Swedish glove leather, --usually made from lambskins tanned with willow bark. Also used adjectively; as, suède gloves.

To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather. The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep. Spenser.

rd. 1 Sam. xxv. 28. The testimony of the Lord is sure. Ps. xix. 7. Which put in good sure leather sacks. Chapman.

The paint used in making patent leather.

an bed (Hort.), a bed made of tan; a bark bed. -- Tan pickle, the liquor used in tanning leather. -- Tan spud, a spud used in stripping bark for tan from trees. -- Tan stove. See Bark stove, under Bark. -- Tan vat, a vat in which hides are steeped in liquor with tan.

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

The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.

An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

One of the leather hoods which cover the stirrups of a Mexican saddle.

The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united. Halliwell.

To tassel. [Obs.] "A purse of leather tassed with silk." Chaucer.

One who taws; a dresser of white leather.

A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by a schoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.] [Scot.] Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.

To prepare by beating or working, as leather or hemp; to taw.

A strap of leather; especially, one used for fastening anything. And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for shields, provide. Dryden. Thong seal (Zoöl.), the bearded seal. See the Note under Seal.

A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.

ng worn on the thumb. Shak. -- Thumb stall. (a) A kind of thimble or ferrule of iron, or leather, for protecting the thumb in making sails, and in other work.

A bit of leather having a peculiar mark designating a particular miner. Each hewer sends one of these with each corf or tub he has hewn. Token money, money which is lawfully current for more than its real value. See Token, n., 4. -- Token sheet (Print.), the last sheet of each token. W. Savage.