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and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 1. 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

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and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 1. 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. 2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. 3. Cloth made of cotton. Note: Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cottton bagging; cotton clotch; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick. Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2. -- Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's- down cotton, or Canton flannel. -- Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. -- Cotton grass , a genus of plants of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit , which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. -- Cotton mouse , a field mouse , injurious to cotton crops. -- Cotton plant , a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is G. herbaceum. -- Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. -- Cotton rose , a genus of composite herbs , covered with a white substance resembling cotton. -- Cotton scale , a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant. -- Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant. -- Cotton stainer , a species of hemipterous insect , which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug. -- Cotton thistle , the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle. -- Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. -- Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills. -- Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state. -- Cotton worm , a lepidopterous insect , which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.

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• PRINTLESS
  Making no imprint. Milton.
• COTTONY
  1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
• FIBER-FACED; FIBRE-FACED
  Having a visible fiber embodied in the surface of; -- applied esp. to a kind of paper for checks, drafts, etc.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• FIBER; FIBRE
  1. One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle. 2. Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one
• PLANTIGRADA
  A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
• UNICELLULAR
  Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• PLANTULE
  The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination.
• CONSIST
  1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
• PLANTIGRADE
  Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright.
• CONSISTORIAN
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• PRINTA-BLE
  Worthy to be published.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• PLANTOCRACY
  Government by planters; planters, collectively.
• PRINT
  To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers,
• DISPLANTATION
  The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh.
• SUPPLANT
  heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• MELOCOTON; MELOCOTOON
  peach tree and its fruit, L. malum cotonium, or cotonea, or Cydonia, A quince. A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• IMPRINT
  to imprint, fr. L. imprimere to impres, imprint. See 1st In-, Print, 1. To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp. And sees his num'rous herds imprint her sands. Prior. 2. To stamp or mark, as letters on paper, by means of type, plates,
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• INTERTWIST
  To twist together one with another; to intertwine.
• UNTWIST
  1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.