Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to,
or like, leather.
Leather board, an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps,
rags, paper, etc. -- Leather carp (Zoöl.) , a variety of carp in which
the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under Carp. --
Leather jacket. (Zoöl.) (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.
(Zoöl.) See Leatherback. -- Vegetable leather. (a) An imitation of
leather made of cotton waste. (b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber.
Ure.
Leath"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Leathered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Leathering.] To beat, as with a thong of leather. [Obs. or Colloq.] G.
Eliot.
Leath"er*back` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea),
having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and
temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand
pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed
tortoise, etc.
{ Leath"er*et (?), Leath`er*ette" (?) }, n. [Leather + et, F. -ette.]
An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
Leath"er*head` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The friar bird.
Leath"ern (?), a. Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a
leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
Leath"er*neck` (?), n. (Zoöl.) The sordid friar bird of Australia
(Tropidorhynchus sordidus).
Leath"er*wood`, n. (Bot.) 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.
Leath"er*y (?), a. Resembling leather in appearance or consistence;
tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
Leave (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Leaved (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Leaving] To
send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.