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An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.

To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G. Eliot.

perate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.

The friar bird.

Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.

The sordid friar bird of Australia (Tropidorhynchus sordidus).

A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.

Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.

Having a sting; covered with prickles; sharp like a prickle.

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

Having two nuclei; as, binucleate cells.

; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.

Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.

To strengthen with a cleat.

Having the form of a snail shell; spiral; turbinated.

A philosopher of the Eleatic school.

The Eleatic doctrine.