Part 6436

<cs><mcol><col>At leastways</col>, &or; <col>At leastwise</col></mcol>, <cd>at least. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Leasy</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Lea"sy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>le\'a0s</ets> void, loose, false. Cf. <er>Leasing</er>.]</ety> <def>Flimsy; vague; deceptive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Ascham.</i>

<h1>Leat</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leat</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Lead</er> to conduct.]</ety> <def>An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill.</def>

<i>C. Kingsley.</i>

<h1>Leather</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>lether</ets>, AS. <ets>le<?/er</ets>; akin to D. <ets>leder</ets>, <ets>le\'88r</ets>, G. <ets>leder</ets>, OHG. <ets>ledar</ets>, Icel. <ets>le<?/r</ets>, Sw. <ets>l\'84der</ets>, Dan. <ets>l\'91der</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The skin.</def> <mark>[Ironical or Sportive]</mark>

<note>&hand; <i>Leather</i> is much used adjectively in the sense of <i>made of</i>, <i>relating to</i>, <i>or like</i>, <i>leather</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Leather board</col>, <cd>an imitation of sole leather, made of leather scraps, rags, paper, etc.</cd> -- <col>Leather carp</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>, a variety of carp in which the scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See <i>Illust<i>. under <er>Carp</er>.</cd> -- <col>Leather jacket</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> (a) <cd>A California carangoid fish (<spn>Oligoplites saurus</spn>).</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A trigger fish (<spn>Balistes Carolinensis</spn>).</cd> -- <col>Leather flower</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a climbing plant (<spn>Clematis Viorna</spn>) of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery sepals of a purplish color.</cd> -- <col>Leather leaf</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a low shrub (<spn>Cassandra calyculata</spn>), growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen, coriaceous, scurfy leaves.</cd> -- <col>Leather plant</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>one or more New Zealand plants of the composite genus <spn>Celmisia</spn>, which have white or buff tomentose leaves.</cd> -- <col>Leather turtle</col>. <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <cd>See <er>Leatherback</er>.</cd> -- <col>Vegetable leather</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>An imitation of leather made of cotton waste</cd>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>Linen cloth coated with India rubber.</cd></cs>

<i>Ure.</i>

<h1>Leather</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"er</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Leathered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Leathering</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To beat, as with a thong of leather.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Colloq.]</mark>

<i>G. Eliot.</i>

<h1>Leatherback</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"er*back`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A large sea turtle (<spn>Sphargis coriacea</spn>), 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 <altname>leather turtle</altname>, <altname>leathery turtle</altname>, <altname>leather-backed tortoise</altname>, etc.</def>

<h1>Leatheret, Leatherette</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw><hw>Leath"er*et</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Leath`er*ette"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Leather</ets> + <ets>et</ets>, F. <ets>-ette</ets>.]</ety> <def>An imitation of leather, made of paper and cloth.</def>

<h1>Leatherhead</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"er*head`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The friar bird.</def>

<h1>Leathern</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"ern</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Made of leather; consisting of. leather; <as>as, a <ex>leathern</ex> purse</as>.</def> "A <i>leathern</i> girdle about his loins."

<i>Matt. iii. 4.</i>

<h1>Leatherneck</h1> <Xpage=839>

<hw>Leath"er*neck`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The sordid friar bird of Australia (<spn>Tropidorhynchus sordidus</spn>).</def>