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Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.

Aculeate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

d husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

ddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

cies. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.

The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.

and or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.