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The spine of a hog. [Obs.]

A woman's skirt so scant at the bottom as to restrain freedom of movement after the fashion of a hobble. -- Hob"ble-skirt`ed, a.

Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.

In a husky manner; dryly.

Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice. G. Eliot.

A meeting of neighbors or friends to assist in husking maize; -- called also husking bee. [U.S.] "A red ear in the husking." Longfellow.

Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

See Lansquenet.

scape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.

Inclined to be lazy. Marston. -- Lusk"*ish*ly, adv. -Lusk"ish*ness, n. [Obs.] Spenser.

The muskellunge.

A little bagpipe. [Obs.] Drayton.

To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.

Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.

The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

Cloth made waterproof by oil.

A kind of thin translucent paper with a glossy finish.

A part remote from the center; outer edge; border; -- usually in the plural; as, the outskirts of a town. Wordsworth. The outskirts of his march of mystery. Keble.