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the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (called rosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It is produced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark red amorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, and stable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, former…

fullness or completeness; to complete; hence, to bring to a fit conclusion. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. Shak.

Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; débris. What rubbish and what offal! Shak. he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden. Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.

thracene obtained as a white crystalline substance, which on oxidation produces a red dyestuff related to anthraquinone.

Chopped meat stuffed into small bags of tripe. They are cut in slices and fried. [Local, New York]

ely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

An annual composite plant (Carthamus tinctorius), the flowers of which are used as a dyestuff and in making rouge; bastard, or false, saffron.

An orange-red dyestuff extracted from the saffron. [R.]

An orange-red nitrogenous dyestuff produced artificailly by oxidizing certain aniline derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. Bacon.

A species of silk stuff, or taffeta, generally interwoven with gold. Tennyson. In silken samite she was light arrayed. Spenser.

; -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

gold and satins rich of hue. Chaucer. Denmark satin, a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. -- Farmer's satin. See under Farmer. -- Satin bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bower bird. Called also satin grackle. -- Satin flower (Bot.) See Honesty, 4. -- Satin spar. (Mi…

A mixed stuff, called also sagathy. See Sagathy.

A sharp-pointed tool, used by joiners for drawing lines on stuff; a marking awl.

To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

A light thin stuff of silk. [Written also cendal, and sendal.] Chaucer. Wore she not a veil of twisted sendal embroidered with silver Sir W. Scott.

A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.