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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.
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Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
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Resembling cotton.
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A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks.
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Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony.
v. i.
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
v. t.
To insert or crowd a wad into; as, to wad a gun; also, to stuff or line with some soft substance, or wadding, like cotton; as, to wad a cloak.
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A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.
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A textile fabric composed of two or more materials, as cotton, silk, wool, etc., woven together.
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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.
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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.
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The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
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Any soft stuff of loose texture, used for stuffing or padding garments; esp., sheets of carded cotton prepared for the purpose.
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A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet.
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A kind of velvet having cotton back.
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Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.
v. t.
To form into a mass, or wad, or into wadding; as, to wad tow or cotton.
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The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.
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A kind of woven fabric for waistcoats, having the weft of wool and the warp of silk or cotton.
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Cloth made of cotton.
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