Backs: alternatives and connections

To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to overcome wi…

The skin of a sheep tanned with bark.

To steep in bate, as hides, in the manufacture of leather.

One who hides away books, as in a tomb.

A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather.

One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.

The thickest and stoutest part of tanned oxhides, used for soles of boots, harness, trunks.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

A soft leather made from the skin of the chamois, or from sheepskin, etc.; -- called also chamois leather, and chammy or shammy leathe…

That which covers or hides the real character of anything; semblance; excuse; disguise; appearance.

A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored,…

One who curries and dresses leather, after it is tanned.

A measure of certain commodities by number, usually ten or twelve, but sometimes twenty; as, a daker of hides consisted of ten skins;…

The number or quantity of ten, particularly ten hides or skins; a dakir; as, a dicker of gloves.

One twelfth part of the diameter of the sun or moon; -- a term used to express the quantity of an eclipse; as, an eclipse of eight dig…

the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

the longest and thickest bone of the human skeleton; extends from the pelvis to the knee

Leather tanned from a hog's skin. Also used adjectively.