pelt2 (pelt)

[ E. pilch ), ult. pilch and peli e: see pilch, peli e. Cf. pell1.] 1. The skin of a beast with the hair on it, especially of one of the smaller animals used in furriery; specifically, a fur-skin dried but not prepared for use as fur; a raw hide: sometimes applied to a garment made from such a skin. Off shepe also comythe pelt and eke Felle. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 16. A pelt , or garments made of wolves and beares skins, which nobles in old time used to weare. Nomenclator (1585). ( Nares .) They used raw pelts clapped about them for their clothes. Fuller , Holy War, p. 145. 2. The mangled quarry of a hawk; the dead body of a bird killed by a hawk.-3. Soft leather used for covering inking-pads. - In king pelt, a sheepskin cut and stuffed in the shape of a ball and fitted to a handle, for use as the inking-ball of a hand pre . Tanned pelt, a skin tanned with the hair on, es pecially one of inferior value, such as sheepskin. = Syn. 1. Hide, etc. See skin . pelta (pel'tä), n.; pl. peltæ (-tē). [L., pelta as that introduced among the A then i an light armed troops by I phi crates, about 392 в. с., to take the place of the heavier shield, in order to increase their efficiency in marching and skirmishing.-2. In bot., an apothecium of a lichen forming a flat shield without distinct exciple, as in the genus Peltigea; sometimes, also, a scale or bract attached by its middle.-3. [ cap.] In conch., a genus of gastropods, now called Runcina. Beck, 1837; Quat ref ages, 1844. Pelta lunata, Pelta Lunata, from statue of an the small crescent-shaped Amazon in the Capitoline Museum, shield often borne by the Rome. Amazons. 4365