Word Meanings - OVERLEATHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Upper leather. Shak.

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• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• 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.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• 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.
• 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.
• UPPER
  Being further up, literally or figuratively; higher in place, position, rank, dignity, or the like; superior; as, the upper lip; the upper side of a thing; the upper house of a legislature. The upper hand, the superiority; the advantage. See To
• LEATHERN
  Made of leather; consisting of. leather; as, a leathern purse. "A leathern girdle about his loins." Matt. iii. 4.
• LEATHERHEAD
  The friar bird.
• LEATHERNECK
  The sordid friar bird of Australia .
• OVERLEATHER
  Upper leather. Shak.
• SUPPER
  A meal taken at the close of the day; the evening meal. Note: Supper is much used in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first part of a compound; as, supper time or supper-time, supper bell, supper hour, etc. (more info) originally
• CRUPPER
  1. The buttocks or rump of a horse. 2. A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards.
• WHITLEATHER
  The paxwax. See Paxwax. (more info) 1. Leather dressed or tawed with alum, salt, etc., remarkable for its pliability and toughness; white leather.
• CUPPER
  One who performs the operation of cupping.
• SUPPERLESS
  Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless to bed. Beau. & Fl.
• DUPPER
  See DUBBER
• SCUPPERNONG
  An American grape, a form of Vitis vulpina, found in the Southern Atlantic States, and often cultivated.
• OOZE LEATHER
  Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding,