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Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

A neckcloth; a piece of silk, fine muslin, or other cloth, worn by men about the neck. While his wig was combed and his cravat tied. Macualay.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

any short bends or turns; to curl; to run in wavws; to wrinkle; also, to rustle, as stiff cloth when moved. The green wheat crinkles like a lake. L. T. Trowbridge. And all the rooms Were full of crinkling silks. Mrs. Browning.

A kind of stiff cloth, used chiefly by women, for underskirts, to expand the gown worn over it; -- so called because originally made of hair.

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.

pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth.

A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] Little curious in her clothes. Fuller. How shall we, If he be curious, work upon his faith Bean &

ceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

omers of the small or petty custom and of the subsidy do demand of them custom for kersey cloths. Hakluyt.

from under the guns of an enemy. -- To cut to pieces. (a) To cut into pieces; as, to cut cloth to pieces. (b) To slaughter; as, to cut an army to pieces. -- To cut a play (Drama), to shorten it by leaving out passages, to adapt it for the stage. -- To cut rates (Railroads, etc.), to reduce the charges for transporta…

A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

To render damp; to moisten; to make humid, or moderately wet; to dampen; as, to damp cloth.

& Fl. To dare larks, to catch them by producing terror through to use of mirrors, scarlet cloth, a hawk, etc., so that they lie still till a net is thrown over them. Nares.

ack, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark and silent grave. Sir W. Raleigh.