(n.) The skin of an animal, or some part of such skin, tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed for use; also, dressed hides, collectively.
(n.) The skin.
(v. t.) To beat, as with a thong of leather.
Example Sentences:
(1) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
(2) Results of the determinations indicated that protective leather gloves contained considerable content of chromium, and chromium-free machine oils and lubricants were polluted with chromium's minute quantities as the oils and lubrications were being used.
(3) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
(4) The results of the study evidence that vitamin B1 and B6 are especially necessary for workers whose activity is associated with manifest nervous-emotional stress, while the workers engaged in the synthetic leather industry being exposed to dimethyl formamide are in need of vitamin B2.
(5) Also in the Lords amongst the phalanx of red leather benches is a solitary seat curbed by an armrest provided for a perpetually drunken Lord (hence the saying?)
(6) Leather, who celebrated his seventh consecutive week at the top of the Amazon chart with his novella The Basement , about a serial killer in New York, also occupies fourth place with Hard Landing , another thriller, and 11th place with Once Bitten , a vampire novel.
(7) Wearing a white dress, black jacket and patent leather sandals, and clutching her mobile phone and keys, she could be on her way to an office in one of the capital's new skyscrapers, instead of walking past a patchwork of bean and sweet potato fields en route to the village's tin-roofed administration offices.
(8) In Great Britain and other countries there have been reports of an increased frequency of adenocarcinoma of the nose and paranasal sinuses, mimicking histologically mucinous colonic carcinoma, among workers exposed to wood dust and workers in the leather industry.
(9) Sometimes he puts on a leather bomber jacket and talks tough, but it doesn't become him.
(10) It's been a wonderful game of football, with both sides going hell-for-leather and it couldn't be more even as things stand: all square on the scoreboard, with each aside having scored an away goal.
(11) When four leather strips were tied to the back tyre of the bicycle before laying the track, the one dog tested took the correct direction significantly more often than predicted by random choice.
(12) Scores of archaeologists working in a waterlogged trench through the wettest summer and coldest winter in living memory have recovered more than 10,000 objects from Roman London , including writing tablets, amber, a well with ritual deposits of pewter, coins and cow skulls, thousands of pieces of pottery, a unique piece of padded and stitched leather – and the largest collection of lucky charms in the shape of phalluses ever found on a single site.
(13) The candidate was crushed with just 4.9% of the vote and was forced to dodge Sydney Leathers, a woman who said she had received sexual messages from him, while giving his concession speech.
(14) The insertions of the superficial and deep portions of the masseter muscle, the temporalis muscle, the medial pterygoid muscle and the temporalis fascia were simulated with leather bonded to the appropriate areas.
(15) In the first image , his brother looks like a cool New Yorker in a leather jacket, cigarette dangling from his mouth.
(16) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(17) Toksvig rides a motorbike, and recently revealed to Radio Times that she had been “taking lessons from a large man in leathers”.
(18) Farron made clear that his party would contest both, particularly Stoke, where he said the Lib Dems would go “hell for leather”: “There’s a really massive issue, where we’re the only people taking what I consider to be the right side.
(19) Here, at number 441, a new Detroit brand called Shinola has its flagship store (there's another in New York) for high-end watches, leather goods and bicycles.
(20) Excess risks were confirmed among men and women employed in the manufacture of footwear and other leather products and of wooden furniture.
Pigskin
Definition:
(n.) The skin of a pig, -- used chiefly for making saddles; hence, a colloquial or slang term for a saddle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fragments of lyophilized pigskin were used as 'germ carriers' and after 24 h of treatment the effectiveness of the antimicrobial creams was tested through the evaluation of bacterial recovery both from the surface and from within the 'germ carriers'.
(2) When using the pigskin model, however, care must be exercised to define the level of incisions and the location of flaps or grafts, with respect to the panniculus carnosus.
(3) Rabbits were selected randomly for the removal of the overlaid pigskin at days 7, 10 or 14 for the evaluation of the degree of epithelialization.
(4) Split-thickness pigskin graft (STPSG) was used to replace allograft skin for microskin grafting in 16 patients, nine of whom were burn patients, five suffered from traumatic defects and two from diabetic ulcers.
(5) These axial pattern flaps differed in their viability from similar flaps in humans, and anastomoses between discrete vascular territories were infrequent in pigskin.
(6) Main properties of fresh and three various kinds of preserved pigskin have been compared in our experiment.
(7) Forty burn patients were treated in last two years by the method of covering excised or tangentially excised wound with lyophilized glutaraldehyde pigskin, and then planned replacing by autograft skin according to patient's condition.
(8) We use pigskin as pattern, due to its similarity to human skin and a PUVA 200 Waldman as source of radiation.
(9) In areas where the overlaid pigskin was sloughing, the epithelialization of the underlying microskin grafts was not complete at the same time.
(10) Histological examination showed a cleaner separation of both rat skin and pigskin was obtained at 4 degrees C than at 37 degrees C. Large areas of skin (1600 mm2) could be separated easily as long as adequate amounts of solution were used.
(11) Experiments showed that as a local dressing for burns, non-laminated collagen sponge was significantly better than pigskin or xeroform.
(12) Tissue adherence values of preserved pigskin grafts were not lower or were a little lower than that of fresh pigskin graft at Phase I, and were higher or were a little higher at Phase II (no statistical difference respectively).
(13) In 129 of 140 attempts, human skin cells were successfully cultured on the dermal collagen bed of sterile, dead pigskin.
(14) Ease of availability, negligible cost and facilitated wound healing make this temporary biologic dressing generally superior to either cadaver skin allograft or pigskin xenograft.
(15) Histological examination of the removed pigskin 7 days after application showed obvious eosinophilic changes in the epidermal cells and pyknotic changes of the nuclei, however in some areas newly formed epidermis could be found.
(16) He was New York's seemingly unstoppable construction tsar, the man the press nicknamed "Big Bob the Builder", a master of backroom politics who was chauffeur-driven around the five boroughs in a black stretch limousine with pigskin seats.
(17) Results indicated that the rates of bacterial contamination of fresh pigskin sterilized by conventional method was 9.8%, while no positive culture had been found in preserved pig skins.
(18) Comparing with this value, permeability of radiated pigskin slightly decreased, permeability of glutaraldehyde treated pigskin (GAS) and chlorhexidine-alcohol refrigerated pigskin (ARS) significantly increased (P less than 0.001 respectively).
(19) James Jones jumps, and actually has his hands on the pigskin, but can't reel it in.
(20) The usefulness of in vivo-like culture system using a specialized collagen gel matrix (Spongostan) derived from pigskin was summarized.