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The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1.
n.
The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins, as sheepskins.
n.
The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; -- generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
v. t.
To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, and the like, by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them.
v. t.
The art of preparing, preserving, and mounting the skins of animals so as to represent their natural appearance, as for cabinets.
n.
A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; -- called also timmer.
n. pl.
Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.
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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 for covering small cases and boxes.
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A machine for pressing the water from skins in tanning.
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A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.
n.
One who skins.
v. t.
To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
n.
A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp.
v. i.
To become covered with skin; as, a wound skins over.
a.
Of or pertaining to the art of preparing and preserving the skins of animals.
n.
A place where skins are tawed.
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One who deals in skins, pelts, or hides.
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The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.
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A clipping from skins; a currier's cuttings.
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A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins.
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