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having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

e. -- Crimping machine, a machine with fluted rollers or with dies, for crimping ruffles leather, iron, etc. -- Crimping pin, an instrument for crimping or puckering the border of a lady's cap.

A wooden tool used in graining leather. Knight.

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.

The galeated curassow. See Curassow.

A nucleated cell having an envelope or cell wall, as a red blood corpuscle or an epithelial cell; a cell concerned in growth.

A nonnucleated mass of protoplasm, the supposed simplest form of independent life differing from the amoeba, in which nuclei are present.

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.