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A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

A variety of gelatin; the chief ingredient of raw silk, extracted as a white amorphous mass.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.

our and a half inches or one eighth of a yard. A piece of steel three fingers thick. Bp. Wilkins.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

Fleeted or skimmed milk. [Obs.] Fleeten face, a face of the color of fleeten, i. e., blanched; hence, a coward. "You know where you are, you fleeten face." Beau. & Fl.

A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

ody of beasts and birds used as food, as distinguished from fish. With roasted flesh, or milk, and wastel bread. Chaucer.

A kind of silk. Knight.

The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

l, so as to run or flow over; to be copious. In that day . . . the hills shall flow with milk. Joel iii. 18. The exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl. Prof. Wilson.

To embellish with flowers; to adorn with imitated flowers; as, flowered silk.

A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke.

trast of color or quality to adorn or set off another thing to advantage. As she a black silk cap on him began To set, for foil of his milk- white to serve. Sir P. Sidney. Hector has a foil to set him off. Broome.

several seeds and opens along the inner or ventral suture, as in the peony, larkspur and milkweed.

A thin, washable material of silk, or silk and cotton, originally imported from India, but now also made elsewhere.

ve. -- French purple, a dyestuff obtained from lichens and used for coloring woolen and silken fabrics, without the aid of mordants. Ure. -- French red rouge. -- French rice, amelcorn. -- French roof (Arch.), a modified form of mansard roof having a nearly flat deck for the upper slope. -- French tub, a dyer's mix…