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A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.

In decorative art, boiled leather, fitted by the process to receive impressed patterns, like those produced by chasing metal, and to retain the impression permanently.

One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.

for use by a process of scraping, cleansing, beating, smoothing, and coloring; -- said of leather.

In currying, a mixture of fish oil and tallow worked into leather; -- called also dubbing. Knight.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it. Hakluyt. Longfellow.

which extracts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

kelp (Laminaria saccharina, and L. longicruris) of the Atlantic ocean, having a blackish, leathery expansion, shaped somewhat like an apron. -- Devil's coachhorse. (Zoöl.) (a) The black rove beetle (Ocypus olens). [Eng.] (b) A large, predacious, hemipterous insect (Prionotus cristatus); the wheel bug. [U.S.] -- Devil'…

h.), a thin, deep steel frame, sharpened to a cutting edge, for cutting out articles from leather, cloth, paper, etc. -- The die is cast, the hazard must be run; the step is taken, and it is too late to draw back; the last chance is taken.

A case of leather to cover the clipped or cut tail of a horse.

The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

r an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.…

To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process of cyrrying it. Tomlinson.

A globular vessel or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [Also written dupper.] M'Culloch.

A dressing of flour and water used by weavers; a mixture of oil and tallow for dressing leather; daubing.

A stout cloth stuff, formerly made in imitation of buff leather and used for garments; a sort of tammy or everlasting. Where didst thou buy this buff let me not live but I will give thee a good suit of durance. J. Webster.

ermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.

To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel card paper; to enamel leather or cloth.

ation communicated by touching; impression made upon one who touches or handles; as, this leather has a greasy feel. The difference between these two tumors will be distinguished by the feel. S. Sharp.