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or blowing fires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles, connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.

A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

la alba), and used in the preparation of genuine ( and sometimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.]

To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.

To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat; to make a senseless noise; to talk inconsiderately. [Low]

tic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.

One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. Nor bigots who but one way see, through blinkers of authority. M. Green.

A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well- tanned leather. Knight.

A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc.

g of one, two, or more balls of stone, iron, or other material, attached to the ends of a leather cord; -- used by the Gauchos of South America, and others, for hurling at and entangling an animal.

A large drinking vessel or can, or a leather bottle, for carrying liquor or beer. [Obs.] Yond same black cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. Shak.

A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather.

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard. [Obs.] You're an absolute borachio. Congreve.

A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for holding liquids.

bottom knocked out. Macaulay. No two chairs were alike; such high backs and low backs and leather bottoms and worsted bottoms. W. Irving.

A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; -- also called water bouget.