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Leather

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.

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 (a) a California carangoid fish (Oligoplites saurus). A trigger fish (Balistes Carolinensis).

(Science: botany) leather flower see leatherback. Vegetable leather. An imitation of leather made of cotton waste. Linen cloth coated with india rubber.

Origin: oe. Lether, as. Leer; akin to D. Leder, leer, g. Leder, OHG. Ledar, Icel. Ler, Sw. Lader, dan. Laeder.


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SOCIETIES evolve also

... picture. For example, the male hunting/war party, is so instinctive that we turn them into teams and they provide our sports. They even chase leather encased balls substituting for "game" in the game. We can find out from this why when monogamy was instituted some five thousand years ...

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by charles brough
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Forum: Evolution
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The Fiber Disease

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by Maggie Mae
Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:12 am
 
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The Fiber Disease

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by Neva Borden
Sun Dec 03, 2006 1:13 pm
 
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