ABSP - Furs and Skins

Furs and Skins

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aqualeather	leather made from fishskin.
astrakhan astrachan	a closely-curled black or grey fur from fleece of KARAKUL lambs; a cloth resembling this.
basan	a sheepskin roughly tanned and undressed. [Ar. bitanah, lining].
bearskin	the skin of a bear; also a shaggy woollen cloth used for overcoats.
broadtail	fur prepared from the skin of very young KARAKUL lambs.
buckskin	the skin of a buck, used e.g. for gloves.
buckskinned	wearing buckskin.
budge	lambskin fur.
cabretta	a soft leather made from the skins of a hairy S American sheep.
calfskin	the skin of a calf, making a fine leather suitable for bookbinding and shoes.
camelhair	a cloth made from camelhair.
capeskin	a type of soft leather made from the skins of long-haired sheep or lambs.
catskin	the skin of a cat esp. as used to make e.g. gloves.
chammy shammy	a leather prepared from the skin of the chamois; (verb) to rub with a chammy leather.
checklaton shecklaton schecklaton	a kind of gilt leather.
cheverel cheveril	a soft, flexible, kidskin leather.
chevrette	a kind of thin kid leather.
coonskin	the skin of a raccoon, esp. as used to make a cap.
cordovan cordwain	goatskin leather.
cowhide	the hide of a cow, esp as made into a leather; (verb) to whip with a leather whip made from cowhide.
cowskin	the skin of a cow.
crimmer krimmer	the tightly curled grey or black fur from a Crimean lamb.
deerskin	the skin of a deer, esp. as used for garments.
doeskin	the skin of a female fallow deer.
dogskin	the skin of a dog, or leather made of the skin.
dongola	a type of leather. [From Dongola, a small town on the Nile].
ermine	a white fur, the stoat's winter coat in northern lands.
ermined	trimmed with ERMINE.
fishskin	the skin of a fish.
fitch	the fur of the polecat.
fleece	a sheep's coat of wool; (verb) to swindle.
fleecy	like a fleece > FLEECIER, FLEECIEST.
flix	fur, beaver-down; (verb) an old form of FLUX > FLIXES, FLIXING, FLIXED.
foxskin	the skin of a fox.
fur	the thick, soft, fine hair of certain animals; (verb) to cover or coat with fur.
furriery	furs, in general.
galyac galyak	a soft glossy fur from a stillborn lamb or kid. [Russian golyak, from goly, smooth].
goatskin	the hide of a goat.
horsehide	the hide of a horse.
kidskin	kid leather.
kipskin	leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle, intermediate in grade between CALFSKIN and COWHIDE.
krimmer	see CRIMMER.
lambskin	the skin of a lamb.
lapin	rabbit; rabbit fur.
leather	a tanned, tawed, or otherwise dressed skin; (verb) to beat with a leather belt.
leathern	made of leather.
leathery	of or like leather > LEATHERIER, LEATHERIEST.
maroquin	goat leather, morocco leather.
moleskin	the skin or fur of a mole; also, a superior kind of cotton resembling this.
morocco	a fine goatskin leather tanned with sumac, first brought from Morocco.
mouton	a sheepskin processed to look like the fur of another animal.
napa nappa	a kind of soft leather prepared from sheep- or goat-skin by a special tawing process.
astrakhan oxhide	the hide of an ox.
parfleche parflesh	rawhide soaked in lye and water, then dried on a stretcher for shields.
peltless	lacking a pelt.
peltry	the skins of animals with the fur on them.
pigskin	the skin of a pig.
plew plu+ plue	a beaver skin.
ponyskin	the skin of a foal used as a fur.
qiviut	the fine, soft, light-brown under layer of hair on the musk ox; yarn spun from this hair. [Inupiaq, pl. of qiviuq.]
rawhide	(a rope or whip) of untanned leather; (verb) to whip with a rawhide.
russia	Russia leather, a fine brownish-red leather impregnated with birch tar oil, used esp in bookbinding.
saffian	a brightly-coloured goatskin or sheepskin leather.
schecklaton	see CHECKLATON.
sealskin	the skin of a seal.
shagreen	a granular leather made from horse's or donkey's skin; the skin of shark, ray, etc, covered with small nodules.
shammy	see CHAMMY.
shecklaton	see CHECKLATON.
sheepskin	the skin of a sheep.
slinkskin	the skin of a SLINK (a prematurely born calf), or leather made from it.
snakeskin	the skin of a snake.
spetch	a piece of undressed leather used in making glue > SPETCHES.
suede	undressed kidskin or soft leather; (verb) to give a suede finish to > SUEDES, SUEDING, SUEDED.
toison	(Fr.) a fleece.
underfur	the dense, soft fur beneath coarse outer hairs.
vair	squirrel fur, much used in medieval times, to line and trim robes.
vellum	calf or lamb gut or skin prepared for writing on; parchment.
villus	soft velvety hair or fur > VILLI. [L. villus, tuft, shaggy hair].
whitleather	leather dressed with alum.
wolfskin	the skin of a wolf.
woolfell	a sheep's skin with the wool still on it.
woollike	like wool.
woolskin	a sheepskin with the wool still on it.
yapp	a limp leather binding. [From Yapp, a bookseller].
yuft	a kind of Russian leather.
zibeline zibelline	the fur of the sable; also a soft woollen material with a lustrous pile.
zorino	a euphemism for skunk fur as used to make garments.

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