Calfskin: alternatives and connections

A large leather bottle for liquors, etc., made of the skin of a goat or other animal. Hence: A drunkard.

A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other ani…

A bale or package. covered with hide, or with wood bound with hide; as, a ceroon of indigo, cochineal, etc.

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

A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.

Soft leather made of kid skin. Fig.: Used as a symbol of flexibility.

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

Leather made of the hide of a cow.

The skin of a deer, or the leather which is made from it.

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…

The skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin. Also used adjectively.

To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell.

A skin or hide; a fell; a pelt.

The skin of a goat, or leather made from it.

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