Word Meanings - SEERHAND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

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• MUSLIN
  A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. (more
• NAINSOOK
  A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.
• TEXTURE
  A tissue. See Tissue. (more info) 1. The act or art of weaving. Sir T. Browne. 2. That which woven; a woven fabric; a web. Milton. Others, apart far in the grassy dale, Or roughening waste, their humble texture weave. Thomson. 3. The disposition
• BETWEEN
  betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
• MUSLINET
  A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.
• BOOK MUSLIN
  1. A kind of muslin used for the covers of books. 2. A kind of thin white muslin for ladies' dresses.
• PRETEXTURE
  A pretext.
• GO-BETWEEN
  An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
• INTERTEXTURE
  The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.
• CONTEXTURE
  The arrangement and union of the constituent parts of a thing; a weaving together of parts; structural character of a thing; system; constitution; texture. That wonderful contexture of all created beings. Dryden. He was not of any delicate
• INTEXTURED
  Inwrought; woven in.
• BUKE MUSLIN
  See MUSLIN
• CONTEXTURED
  Formed into texture; woven together; arranged; composed. Carlyle.
• RETEXTURE
  The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.