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- Cotton - n. - A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
- Cotton - n. - The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
- Cotton - n. - Cloth made of cotton.
- Cotton - v. i. - To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
- Cotton - v. i. - To go on prosperously; to succeed.
- Cotton - v. i. - To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
- Cotton - v. i. - To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
- Cottonade - n. - A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
- Cottonary - a. - Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
- Cottonous - a. - Resembling cotton.
- Cottontail - n. - The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
- Cottonweed - n. - See Cudweed.
- Cottonwood - n. - An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
- Cottony - a. - Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
- Cottony - a. - Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
- Beetle - v. t. - To finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
- Press - v. - To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes.
- Parkesine - n. - A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.
- Turban - n. - A headdress worn by men in the Levant and by most Mohammedans of the male sex, consisting of a cap, and a sash, scarf, or shawl, usually of cotton or linen, wound about the cap, and sometimes hanging down the neck.
- Work - v. t. - To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth.
- Muslin - n. - A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.
- Toilinette - n. - A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for waistcoats.
- Bat - n. - A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
- Skip - n. - A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
- Fustian - n. - A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.
- Nitrogelatin - n. - An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
- Dungaree - n. - A coarse kind of unbleached cotton stuff.
- Sliver - n. - A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.
- Percale - n. - A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.
- Purdah - n. - A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains.
- Footing - n. - A narrow cotton lace, without figures.
- Insulite - n. - An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.
- Malvaceous - a. - Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
- Gingham - n. - A kind of cotton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.
- Velvet - n. - A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
- Lap - n. - A sheet, layer, or bat, of cotton fiber prepared for the carding machine.
- Capoc - n. - A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.
- Reel - n. - A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches.
- Bergamot - n. - A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit.
- Ginhouse - n. - A building where cotton is ginned.
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