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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 1821
...The cork oak, Quercus suber. Also: the bark of this, formerly used in tanning and occas. medicinally. Now rare....
4. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1877
...Alligator skin or material resembling this; (also in pl.) shoes of (imitation) alligator skin. Cf. 2....
5. alligator, n.2 View full entry 1861
...orig. U.S.attrib., with the sense ‘made of alligator skin or material resembling this’....
6. 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...
7. 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.)....
8. back, n.1 View full entry 1871
...pl. (Also with capital initial.) The gardens behind colleges bordering on the river Cam at Cambridge....
9. back, n.1 View full entry 1535
...Leather trade. The thickest and best-tanned hides....
10. bag, n. View full entry 1909
...spec. in Leather Industry (see quot. 1909)....
11. † barehide, n. View full entry c1450
...? A hide with the hair removed, or one undressed....
12. bark, n.1 View full entry 1707
...instrumental or limitative, as in bark-bared, bark-feeder, bark-formed, bark-tanned, bark-tanning....
13. bark-bed in bark, n.1 View full entry 1732
...a hot-bed made of spent bark from a tannery....
14. bark-cobill in bark, n.1 View full entry c1550
...(German kubel) a bark-vat....
15. bark-house in bark, n.1 View full entry 1483
...one in which bark is stored, a tan-house....
16. bark-mill in bark, n.1 View full entry 1760
...a mill in which tanning bark is ground....
17. bark-pit in bark, n.1 View full entry
...a pit filled with bark and water in which hides are steeped in tanning....
18. bark, v.2 View full entry c1430
...trans. To treat with bark, steep in an infusion of bark; to tan....
19. barked, adj. View full entry c1430
...Tanned. Obs....
20. ˈbarkened, adj. View full entry 1818
...Tanned. Cf. barked2....
