shagreen
/ʃæ'gri:n/
📖 中文释义
- n. 绿皮, 鲨革
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- v. t. To chagrin.
- n. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the
- East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to
- be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface
- is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when
- moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between
- them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had
- been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is
- used for covering small cases and boxes.
- n. The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when
- having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium
- furnish a large part of that used in the arts.
- a. Alt. of Shagreened