A whip made of untanned hide. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Long black hair, brown eyes, creamy untanned skin. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota Menage] Reference
I'll be back untanned, rested and ready for midseason on February 27. From Wordnik.com. [On Hiatus – But Not Cancelled! - Tuned In - TIME.com] Reference
Let us hope that the untanned leather bindings have spared you their malaria. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
The Bechuanas put their milk into sacks made of untanned hide, with the hair taken off. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Glancing around with concealed annoyance Rosemary saw the untanned people were waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Tender is the Night] Reference
Maybe it just means “normal” to the untanned skin of the user without specifying color. From Wordnik.com. [FOR “NORMAL TO DARKER SKIN” » Sociological Images] Reference
The one feels like velvet; the other is no more pleasant to the touch than untanned leather. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Al looked up, pushed back his hat, revealing stringy hairs stuck to damp, untanned forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Whereas the skin of the right hand was like a baby's, smooth and pink, untanned, almost translucent. From Wordnik.com. [A Gift From Earth]
The whip was a yard-long strip of untanned cowhide, an inch thick at the grip and tapering to a point. From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
Scrambling over his yawning, untanned ankle jack-boots, it slipped under the equally yawning blue jeans. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
She brought out some tinted hand lotion and worked it into his hands, converting them to untanned color. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Adept]
Do not keep untanned hides or skins over the summer because they may deteriorate and be damaged by insects. From Wordnik.com. [Writing Update - DAY TWO - In a Pig's Eye] Reference
Ian had his head pillowed on a packet of roughly butchered venison, wrapped in the untanned skin of the deer. From Wordnik.com. [Drums of Autumn]
For dress, the untanned skins of the animals caught in the chase, with the hair outboard, answers all their requirements. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
A suitable and reliable reagent is indigotine (B.A.S.F.), which clearly distinguishes tanned and untanned layers of the pelt. From Wordnik.com. [Synthetic Tannins] Reference
The improvised covering would pass without question as one of the untanned hides the barbarians wore dangling from their waists. From Wordnik.com. [Creatures of Vibration] Reference
I've heard them say that the animals don't like chemicals, metal or tanned leather, so they wear untanned furs for the most part. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
And upon his untanned forehead oozed the perspiration of dismay. From Wordnik.com. [The Rich Little Poor Boy] Reference
When his hair was trimmed the untanned part showed as plainly as if painted. From Wordnik.com. [The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama] Reference
The few who were so luxurious as to wear rude socks of untanned hide spurned them away. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3] Reference
I remember thinking that his features, pale and wholly untanned, were rather wonderful for. From Wordnik.com. [Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories] Reference
Some were wrapped in blankets of rag-carpet, and others wore shoes of rough, untanned hide. From Wordnik.com. [Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War] Reference
Californians; one of them having on a pair of untanned leather trousers and a red baize shirt. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Her chin and neck were wholly untanned, white and soft, and the blue veins roamed at their will. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Fields] Reference
Their coats were of untanned leather, ornamented with beads, as were their leggings and boots, or mocassins. From Wordnik.com. [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference
What is the stomach but a living sack, or purse of untanned leather, wherein we keep our means of subsistence?. From Wordnik.com. [Luck or Cunning?] Reference
From the girdle of untanned skin a double string of black horn beads, each large as a walnut, dropped to his knees. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
On their feet they wear sandals of untanned leather, which merely cover the toes, and are fastened round the ancle. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
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