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A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.

A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

; distress. [Obs.] [Written also comber.] A place of much distraction and cumber. Sir H. Wotton. Sage counsel in cumber. Sir W. Scott.

t away. Cutaway coat, a coat whose skirts are cut away in front so as not to meet at the bottom.

the daintiness of his leg and foot, and the earl in the fine shape of his hands, Sir H. Wotton.

ently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon.

arning the devoted wretch of death and woe. Smollett. Davy Jones's Locker, the ocean, or bottom of the ocean. -- Gone to Davy Jones's Locker, dead, and buried in the sea; thrown overboard.

Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. N. Cotton.

extract its virtues. In decoction . . . it either purgeth at the top or settleth at the bottom. Bacon.

the surface downward, and distinguished from high, which is measured upward); far to the bottom; having a certain depth; as, a deep sea. The water where the brook is deep. Shak.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

The act of exerting one's strength or limbs. Neater limbs and freer delivery. Sir H. Wotton.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

Act of departing; departure. [Obs.] Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton.

loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; -- used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations. -- Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of exp…

tantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.

To take away; to withdraw. Detract much from the view of the without. Sir H. Wotton.

An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.

A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. Blue devils. See under Blue. -- Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian. -- Devil bird (Zoöl.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes (Edolius retifer, and E. remifer), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defian…