tawer (taer)

[ Tanners, tawers , dre ers, curriers, sellers of hides or skins. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, IV. 322. tawery (ta'er-i), n.; pl. taweries (-iz). [ taw1 +-ery.] A place where skins are tawed. In Paris i an taweries calves' brains, intimately mixed with wheat flour, are used as a substitute for yelk of egg. C. T. Davis , Leather, p. 656. tawie (ta'i), a. [ taw1 , v.] The manufacture of leather from raw hides or skins, without the use of tannin, by various proce es involving treatment with saline substances, as common salt, alum, or iron salts, or with fatty matters, as fish-oil, neat's-foot oil, etc., or by the use of both saline and fatty materials together, with prolonged rubbing, working, and stretching. Sometimes other animal substances or excretions, as urine, dogs' dung, etc., are used, and sometimes also other auxiliary treatment, whereby a more or le soft, flexible, durable leather is produced. tawneyt, a. An obsolete spelling of tawny . tawnine (tâ'ni-nes), n . The quality of being tawny. Bailey , 1727.