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   Leather , n. [OE. lether, AS. leðer; akin to D. leder, leêr, G. leder, OHG. ledar, Icel. leðr, Sw. läder, Dan. læder.]
   The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, with the hair removed, and tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
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   The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
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   ☞ Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather.
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   Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc. -- Leather carp (Zool.) , a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp. -- Leather jacket. (Zool.) (a) A California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus). (b) A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis). -- Leather flower (Bot.), a climbing plant (Clematis Viorna) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color. -- Leather leaf (Bot.), a low shrub (Cassandra calyculata), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves. -- Leather plant (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus Celmisia, which have white or buff tomentose leaves. -- Leather turtle. (Zool.) See Leatherback. -- Vegetable leather. (a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber.
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   Leather, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leathered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Leathering.] To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.]
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   leather , a. Of, pertaining to or made of leather; consisting of leather; as, a black leather jacket.
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