Word Meanings - LEATHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• LEATHERWOOD
  A small branching shrub , 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.
• LEATHERBACK
  A large sea turtle , 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.
• LEATHERY
  Resembling leather in appearance or consistence; tough. "A leathery skin." Grew.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• LEATHER
  1. The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively. 2. The skin. Note: Leather is much used adjectively in the sense of made of, relating to, or like, leather. Leather
• LEATHERET; LEATHERETTE
  An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.
• LEATHERN
  Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
• LEATHERHEAD
  The friar bird.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• TOUGHISH
  Tough in a slight degree.
• APPEARANCE
  The coming into court of either of the parties; the being present in court; the coming into court of a party summoned in an action, either by himself or by his attorney, expressed by a formal entry by the proper officer to that effect; the act or
• LEATHERNECK
  The sordid friar bird of Australia .
• REAPPEARANCE
  A second or new appearance; the act or state of appearing again.
• OVERLEATHER
  Upper leather. Shak.
• DISAPPEARANCE
  The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
• INCONSISTENCE
  Inconsistency.
• NONAPPEARANCE
  Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
• WHITLEATHER
  The paxwax. See Paxwax. (more info) 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.