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Hence: An overshoe worn in wet weather.

A strip of material, as leather, running around a shoe at and above the sole, as for protection or ornament.

. Davies. O sleep! it is a gentle thing. Coleridge. The gentle craft, the art or trade of shoemaking.

ressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storehouses. -- Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from w…

To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot.

A rubber overshoe. [Local, U. S.] Black gum, Blue gum, British gum, etc. See under Black, Blue, etc. -- Gum Acaroidea, the resinous gum of the Australian grass tree (Xanlhorrhoea). -- Gum animal (Zoöl.), the galago of West Africa; -- so called because it feeds on gums. See Galago. -- Gum animi or animé. See Animé.…

Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats.

The hinder part of any covering for the foot, as of a shoe, sock, etc.; specif., a solid part projecting downward from the hinder part of the sole of a boot or shoe.

A composition of wax and lampblack, used by shoemakers for polishing, and by antiquaries in copying inscriptions.

A piece of leather fixed on the heel of a shoe.

One of the segments of leather in the heel of a shoe.

er of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

The Limulus or horseshoe crab.

out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes.

The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed