2. The skin. [Ironical or Sportive]
Note: 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} (Zo["o]l.), a variety of carp in which the
scales are all, or nearly all, absent. See Illust. under
{Carp}.
{Leather jacket}. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A California carangoid fish ({Oligoplites saurus}).
(b) A trigger fish ({Balistes Carolinensis}).
{Leather flower} (Bot.), a climbing plant ({Clematis Viorna})
of the Middle and Southern States having thick, leathery
sepals of a purplish color.
{Leather leaf} (Bot.), a low shrub ({Cassandra calyculata}),
growing in Northern swamps, and having evergreen,
coriaceous, scurfy leaves.
{Leather plant} (Bot.), one or more New Zealand plants of the
composite genus {Celmisia}, which have white or buff
tomentose leaves.
{Leather turtle}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Leatherback}.
{Vegetable leather}.
(a) An imitation of leather made of cotton waste.
(b) Linen cloth coated with India rubber. --Ure.