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ns having the feet converted into paddles, as the green turtle, hawkbill, loggerhead, and leatherback. They inhabit all warm seas.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

An inspector of leather. [Prov. Eng.]

A leguminous shrub (Sesbania aculeata) which furnishes a fiber used for making ropes.

edle. Sewing horse (Harness making), a clamp, operated by the foot, for holding pieces of leather while being sewed. -- Sewing machine, a machine for sewing or stitching. -- Sewing press, or Sewing table (Bookbinding), a fixture or table having a frame in which are held the cords to which the back edges of folded she…

A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughn…

Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.

A soft, pliant leather, prepared originally from the skin of the chamois, but now made also from the skin of the sheep, goat, kid, deer, and calf. See Shamoying. [Written also chamois, shamoy, and shamois.]

A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists in frizzing the skin, and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, or the like) ordinarily used in tanning.

A kind of gilt leather. See Checklaton. [Obs.] Spenser.

The skin of a sheep; or, leather prepared from it.

Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback. [Local, U.S.] Bartlett.

A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. Your hose should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. Shak.

A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. "Shreds of tanned leather." Bacon.

e mesial plane; or that which pertains to such a half; as, a side of beef; a side of sole leather.

the outside wall of a frame house, whether made of weatherboards, vertical boarding with cleats, shingles, or the like.

A saddle girth made of leather, canvas, woven horsehair, or woven grass. [Western U.S.]

ommon bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.

To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).

An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed. It is used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.