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Any textile fabric (esp. linen or cotton toweling) woven in diaper pattern. See 2.

Regularly dividing by pairs from bottom to top; as, a dichotomous stem. -- Di*chot"o*mous*ly, adv.

Definitive; determinate; final. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A cotton fabric employed for hangings and furniture coverings, and formerly used for women's under-garments. It is of many patterns, both plain and twilled, and occasionally is printed in colors.

Want of as siduity or care. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

Disavowal. [R.] Wotton.

disgrace. He. . . least discredits his travels who returns the same man he went. Sir H. Wotton.

cially of tumors. Many arts were used to discuss the beginnings of new affection. Sir H. Wotton. A pomade . . . of virtue to discuss pimples. Rambler.

By dispensation. Wotton.

sposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.] In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.

To do preciate. [R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).

umn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

Breadth. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

.: One who goes deeply into a subject, study, or business. "A diver into causes." Sir H. Wotton.

el out of water. -- Graving dock, a dock for holding a ship for graving or cleaning the bottom, etc. -- Hydraulic dock, a dock in which a vessel is raised clear of the water by hydraulic presses. -- Naval dock, a dock connected with which are naval stores, materials, and all conveniences for the construction and rep…

er, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods. [U. S.]

A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

A small, strong, flat-bottomed rowboat, with sharp prow and flaring sides.