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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.

Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

Upper leather. Shak.

Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

d husks of the legumes of a South American tree (Inga Marthæ). It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.

Leathery.

The tanning or dressing of leather. [Obs.] Blount.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

ddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

An article of dress, of cloth, leather, or other stuff, worn on the fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

cies. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.