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1. after-sun, adj. and n. View full entry 1949
...Designating a product applied to the skin after exposure to the sun to help reduce sunburn, rehydrate the skin, or enhance tanning....
2. album graecum, n. View full entry 1584
...The dry white excrement of a dog, hyena, or other bone-eating carnivore, esp. when used as an ingredient in medicinal preparations or in dyeing and tanning....
3. alcornoque, n. View full entry 1811
...Any of various tropical American shrubs or trees yielding a medicinal bark; esp. Bowdichia virgilioides (family Fabaceae (Leguminosae)), used also for timber. Also: the bark of...
4. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1591
...Any of various broad-snouted crocodilians constituting the family Alligatoridae, found chiefly in the New World and including the caimans; (now) spec. either of two members of the genus...
5. alum, n.1 View full entry a1398
...An astringent mineral salt, typically occurring as colourless or whitish crystals, that is used as a mordant for dyeing, in tanning, for sizing paper and fireproofing materials, in water purification, and in...
6. alutaceous, adj. View full entry 1828
...Of a surface: having a texture like that of leather; covered in minute cracks. Formerly also: †having a tan colour (obs.)....
7. back, n.1 View full entry c885
...properly. The convex surface of the body of persons and vertebrated animals which is adjacent to the spinal axis, and opposite to the belly and most of the special organs. It...
8. bag, n. View full entry ?c1225
...A receptacle made of some flexible material closed in on all sides except at the top (where also it generally can be closed); a pouch, a small sack....
9. † barehide, n. View full entry c1450
...? A hide with the hair removed, or one undressed....
10. bark, n.1 View full entry a1300
...The rind or outer sheath of the trunk and branches of trees, formed of tissue parallel with the wood. See quot. 1866....
11. bark, v.2 View full entry a1400
...intr. (with over) To form a bark....
12. barked, adj. View full entry c1430
...Covered with, or having, a bark; encrusted....
13. ˈbarkened, adj. View full entry 1513
...Dried into a hardened incrustation, encrusted with a sticky daubing which has dried on....
14. barker, n.2 View full entry 1402
...A tanner. Obs....
15. ˈbarking, n.2 View full entry c1440
...Steeping in an infusion of bark; tanning....
16. ˈbarking, adj.2 View full entry c1600
...That ‘barks’; following the trade of a tanner....
17. barkometer, n. View full entry 1821
...A tanner's hydrometer for testing the strength of bark infusions....
18. basan | bazan, n. View full entry 1714
...Sheep-skin tanned in oak- or larch-bark; distinguished from roan, which is tanned in sumach....
19. basil | bazil, n.3 View full entry 1674
...Sheepskin tanned in bark; distinguished from roan, which is tanned in sumach. Often attrib....
20. bate, n.5 View full entry 1804
...An alkaline lye which neutralizes the effect of the previous application of lime, and makes the hides supple; a vat containing it; the process of steeping in it....
