EFFLOWER
\ˈɛfla͡ʊə], \ˈɛflaʊə], \ˈɛ_f_l_aʊ_ə]\
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To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, - as in making chamois leather.
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To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, - as in making chamois leather.
By Noah Webster.
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In leather manufacture, see the following extract. "The skins (chamois leather) are first washed, limed, fleeced, and branned. . . . They are next efflowered, that is, deprived of their epidermis by a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, upon the convex horse beam."-Ure.
By Daniel Lyons
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).