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Cotton
COTTON, n.
1. A soft downy substance, resembling fine wool, growing in the capsules or pods of a shrub, called the cotton-plant. It is the material of a large proportion of cloth for apparel and furniture.
2. Cloth made of cotton.
Lavender-cotton, a genus of plants, Santolina, of several species; shrubs cultivated in gardens. One species, the chamoecyparyssus or abrotanum foemina, female southernwood, is vulgarly called brotany.
Philosophic cotton, flowers of zink, which resemble cotton.
Silk-cotton tree, a genus of plants, the Bombax, growing to a great size in the Indies, and producing a kind of cotton in capsules.
COTTON, a. Pertaining to cotton; made of cotton; consisting of cotton; as cotton cloth; cotton stockings.
COTTON, v.i.
1. To rise with a nap.
2. To cement; to unite with; a cant word.
cotton appears in definitions for these words:
Adatis Adenos Allegeas Allegias Baza Bergamot Bezan Bombasin Burbast Byssolite Calico Candle Cannequin Carding-machine Cassidony Cauterization Chard Chints Cloth Commodity Compete Corduroy Cotton Cotton-gin Cotton-machine Cotton-mill Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Cottony Dimity Downweed Dye Employ Farin Fother Freight Fruit Fustian Gin Gingham Gossamer Humhum Import Improve Interest Interweave Invention Lade Lautu Machinery Manufacture Mart Match Melocotone Minuteness Mostly Muslin Muslinet Nankeen Nascal Nidulant Paper Partnership Pile Plantation Quick-match Quilt Rag Sack Scorch Shawl Shirt Spin Spining-wheel Spinning Spinning-jenny Staple Steve Stock Thistle Thred Tomentous Turban Twist Umbrel Unprinted Variety Velvet Whirl Wick Work Yarn
Adatis Adenos Allegeas Allegias Baza Bergamot Bezan Bombasin Burbast Byssolite Calico Candle Cannequin Carding-machine Cassidony Cauterization Chard Chints Cloth Commodity Compete Corduroy Cotton Cotton-gin Cotton-machine Cotton-mill Cotton-plant Cotton-shrub Cottony Dimity Downweed Dye Employ Farin Fother Freight Fruit Fustian Gin Gingham Gossamer Humhum Import Improve Interest Interweave Invention Lade Lautu Machinery Manufacture Mart Match Melocotone Minuteness Mostly Muslin Muslinet Nankeen Nascal Nidulant Paper Partnership Pile Plantation Quick-match Quilt Rag Sack Scorch Shawl Shirt Spin Spining-wheel Spinning Spinning-jenny Staple Steve Stock Thistle Thred Tomentous Turban Twist Umbrel Unprinted Variety Velvet Whirl Wick Work Yarn
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