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A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.

A curved file used in carving wool and marble.

A woman's light scarflike head covering, usually knit or crocheted of wool.

An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.

formation; authorized to examine witnesses or ascertain facts; as, a rogatory commission. Woolsey.

That which is rolled up; as, a roll of fat, of wool, paper, cloth, etc. Specifically:

To draw out into falkes; to card, as wool. Jamieson.

The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine.

A piece of thick, nappy fabric, commonly made of wool, -- used for various purposes, as for covering and ornamenting part of a bare floor, for hanging in a doorway as a potière, for protecting a portion of carpet, for a wrap to protect the legs from cold, etc.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

A red dyestuff extracted from the safflower, and formerly used in dyeing wool, silk, and cotton pink and scarlet; -- called also Spanish red, China lake, and carthamin.

oduced 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.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton; or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

in a furnace hearth. Giant salamander. (Zoöl.) See under Giant. -- Salamander's hair or wool (Min.), a species of asbestus or mineral flax. [Obs.] Bacon.

acreæ which is very destructive to the salt-marsh grasses and to other crops. Called also wooly bear. See Illust. under Moth, Pupa, and Woolly bear, under Woolly. -- Salt-marsh fleabane (Bot.), a strong-scented composite herb (Pluchea camphorata) with rayless purplish heads, growing in salt marshes. -- Salt-marsh hen…

To take or to test a sample or samples of; as, to sample sugar, teas, wools, cloth.

One who makes up samples for inspection; one who examines samples, or by samples; as, a wool sampler.

A large bale or package of wool, containing eighty tods, or 2,240 pounds, in weight. [Eng.]

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.