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A stone for coping. See Coping.

A cobblestone. [Obs.]

A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet.

Signals made by burning lights of different colors and used by vessels at sea, and in the life-saving service; -- named after their inventor.

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.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

The seed of the cotton plant.

Alabama; -- a nickname.

A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

See Cudweed.

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.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

A system of prison discipline employing for consecutive periods cellular confinement, associated imprisonment under the mark system, restraint intermediate between imprisonment and freedom, and liberation on ticket of leave.

See Harmotome, and Staurotide.