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erate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

The friar bird.

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.

Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.

Having the power of retaining the breath for a long time; long- winded.

A sweet liquor; mead. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.

A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.

Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place. Shak.

A person who has the care of neat cattle; a cowherd. Dryden.

A building for the shelter of neat cattle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Massinger.

Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

To breathe forth. "Outbreathed life." Spenser.

Upper leather. Shak.

To expose too long to the influence of the weather. [Obs.] Shak.

A feather not fully developed; esp., a rudimentary feather just emerging through the skin.

Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.

To breathe again.