a. [f. LEATHER sb. + -Y.] Resembling leather in appearance or texture; frequent in botanical use = CORIACEOUS. Of the voice: As if proceeding from an organ of leather.

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1552.  Huloet, Letherye or of lether.

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1681.  Grew, Museum, 111. Wormius calls this Crust a Leathery Skin.

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1787.  Families Plants, I. 256. Perianth eight-leaved, leathery.

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1821.  Craig, Lect. Drawing, ii. 127. The fleshy tints of the pictures painted in oil become brown and leathery.

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1870.  Hooker, Stud. Flora, 288. Marrubium vulgare … Leaves … much wrinkled, leathery.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 418. Leathery leaves of Conifers.

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1888.  E. Eggleston, in Century Mag., Feb., 565/2. She thrust forward her leathery hand holding an uncorked bottle of ammonia.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 470. The tones of the voice were leathery.

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1898.  J. Hutchinson, Archives Surg., IX. No. 34. 103. The valves of the heart, especially the mitral, were thickened and leathery.

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  Comb.  1851.  Mayne Reid, Scalp Hunt., xxi. 155. The hair was all worn off it [a cap], leaving a greasy, leathery-looking surface.

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1880.  C. R. Markham, Peruv. Bark, 167. Several Calisaya trees were growing on the summit … in company with the leathery-leafed huaturu.

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