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Trionyx :: Trionyx (n.) A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shell imperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They are noted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise, soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle..

Patch :: Patch (n.) A piece of greased cloth or leather used as wrapping for a rifle ball, to make it fit the bore..

Clout :: Clout (n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

Supple :: Supple (v. t.) To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather..

Sherryvallies :: Sherryvallies (n. pl.) Trousers or overalls of thick cloth or leather, buttoned on the outside of each leg, and generally worn to protect other trousers when riding on horseback..

Aculeated :: Aculeated (a.) Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

Counter :: Counter (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.

Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron..

Binuclear :: Binuclear (a.) Alt. of Binucleat.

Unhair :: Unhair (v. t.) To deprive of hair, or of hairs; as, to unhair hides for leather..

Spruce :: Spruce (a.) Prussia leather; pruce.

Shagreen :: Shagreen (n.) A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used f

Kid :: Kid (n.) A kind of leather made of the skin of the young goat, or of the skin of rats, etc..

Calfskin :: Calfskin (n.) The hide or skin of a calf; or leather made of the skin.

Roxburgh :: Roxburgh (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut..

Sweetmeat :: Sweetmeat (n.) The paint used in making patent leather.

Oleone :: Oleone (n.) An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid..

Boot :: Boot (n.) A covering for the foot and lower part of the leg, ordinarily made of leather..

Clout :: Clout (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout..

Backs :: Backs (n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides..

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