[f. TAXIDERMY + -IST.] One skilled in taxidermy; a professional stuffer of animals for preservation. Also attrib.
1828. in Webster.
1849. Longf., Kavanagh, xv. The taxidermist … was not there.
1851. Mantell, Petrifact., ii. § 3. 108, note. The eminent taxidermist … to whom I entrusted the skins of Notornis, Apteryx, &c. to be stuffed and mounted.
1869. Eng. Mech., 31 Dec., 381/1. The glass eyes used by taxidermists are generally too spherical.
1898. Mrs. W. Pitt Byrne, Social Hours with Celebrities, II. xiii. 33. I had heard much of Squire Waterton’s … rare acquaintance with natural history and matchless skill as a taxidermist.
