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Word Meanings - TONITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

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  • 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.
  • COMPOUNDER
    A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
  • COMPOUNDABLE
    That may be compounded.
  • COMPOUND CONTROL
    A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
  • COTTONADE
    A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
  • COTTON BATTING
    Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
  • COTTONWOOD
    An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
  • COTTONARY
    Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
  • COTTONSEED MEAL
    A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
  • COTTONOUS
    Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
  • COTTON
    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
  • COTTONWEED
    See CUDWEED
  • COTTON STATE
    Alabama; -- a nickname.
  • COTTONTAIL
    The American wood rabbit ; -- also called Molly cottontail.
  • COTTON SEED; COTTONSEED
    The seed of the cotton plant.
  • EXPLOSIVE
    Driving or bursting out with violence and noise; causing explosion; as, the explosive force of gunpowder.
  • PREPARATION
    The holding over of a note from one chord into the next chord, where it forms a temporary discord, until resolved in the chord that follows; the anticipation of a discordant note in the preceding concord, so that the ear is prepared for the shock.
  • EXPLOSIVELY
    In an explosive manner.
  • COMPOUND
    In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
  • COTTONSEED OIL
    A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure . and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • INEXPLOSIVE
    Not explosive.
  • SUPRADECOMPOUND
    More than decompound; divided many times.
  • NONPREPARATION
    Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.
  • FELONY; TO COMPOUND A FELONY
    . See under Compound, v. t.
  • DECOMPOUNDABLE
    Capable of being decompounded.

 

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