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Leatherstocking (Natty)

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The nickname of Natty Bumpo (q.v.), in Cooper’s novel, called The Pioneers. A half-savage and half-Christian hero of American wild life.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Leap Year
Leap in the Dark (A)
Lear (King)
Learn
Learn by Heart (To)
Learned
Least Said the soonest Mended (The) or The Less Said
Leather
Leather or Prunella
Leathering
Leatherstocking (Natty)
Leave in the Lurch (To)
Leave out in the Cold (To)
Leave some for Manners
Leaves without Figs
Led Captain (A)
Leda and the Swan
Ledger (A)
Ledger-lines
Lee
Lee Hatch