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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.

The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble the bleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certain diseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.

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.

The granule within the nucleolus or entoblast of a nucleated cell. Agassiz.

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.

ngly heating together potash, scrap iron, and animal matter containing nitrogen, as horn, leather, blood, etc., in iron pots.

uth, used for holding and conveying liquors. It is generally larger than a bottle, and of leather or stoneware rather than of glass. A trencher of mutton chops, and a flagon of ale. Macaulay.

ng solutions. -- Pocket flask, a kind of pocket dram bottle, often covered with metal or leather to protect it from breaking.

nflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather. Waller.

To repair the feet of, as of boots, with new front upper leather, or to piece the upper fronts of.

idorhynchus corniculatus), having the head destitute of feathers; -- called also coldong, leatherhead, pimlico; poor soldier, and four-o'clock. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus. -- Friar's balsam (Med.), a stimulating application for wounds and ulcers, being an alcoholic solution of…

ted together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.

A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull brownish green color; rockweed.

the instruments are employed. -- Full binding, the binding of a book when made wholly of leather, as distinguished from half binding. -- Full bottom, a kind of wig full and large at the bottom. -- Full brother or sister, a brother or sister having the same parents as another. -- Full cry (Hunting), eager chase; --…

A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep, or for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.

Loose hose or breeches; leather leg quards. The word is used loosely and often in a jocose sense.