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- 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.
- Velvet - n. - The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth.
- Velvet - a. - Made of velvet; soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
- Velvet - v. i. - To pain velvet.
- Velvet - v. t. - To make like, or cover with, velvet.
- Velvetbreast - n. - The goosander.
- Velveteen - n. - A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
- Velveting - n. - The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
- Velvetleaf - n. - A name given to several plants which have soft, velvety leaves, as the Abutilon Avicennae, the Cissampelos Pareira, and the Lavatera arborea, and even the common mullein.
- Velvety - a. - Made of velvet, or like velvet; soft; smooth; delicate.
- Whitewing - n. - The velvet duck.
- Lure - n. - A velvet smoothing brush.
- Velveret - n. - A kind of velvet having cotton back.
- Velveting - n. - The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvet goods.
- Wilton carpet - - A kind of carpet woven with loops like the Brussels, but differing from it in having the loops cut so as to form an elastic velvet pile; -- so called because made originally at Wilton, England.
- Panel - n. - A plain strip or band, as of velvet or plush, placed at intervals lengthwise on the skirt of a dress, for ornament.
- Dress - n. - A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
- Base - n. - A kind of skirt ( often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armor) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.