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The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

To inhabit. [Obs.] In thilke places as they [birds] habiten. Rom. of R.

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

re's foot. Harefoot clover (Bot.), a species of clover (Trifolium arvense) with soft and silky heads.

A spindle to wind yarn, thread, or silk on.

A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk. [Eng.]

produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

To receive and retain; to contain as a vessel; as, this pail holds milk; hence, to be able to receive and retain; to have capacity or containing power for. Broken cisterns that can hold no water. Jer. ii. 13. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold. Shak.

of a breed of cattle, originally from Schleswig-Holstein, valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.

An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

schist (Min.), a mica schist characterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silky luster and almost soapy feel.

ok or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive sheet of ice. -- Ice float, Ice floe, a sheet of floating ice similar to an ice field, but smaller. -- Ice foot, shore ice in Arctic regions; an ice b…

A coating or covering resembling ice, as of sugar and milk or white of egg; frosting.

A plain, delicate lace, usually of silk, used for veils, scarfs, dresses, etc.

Not mixable. Bp. Wilkins.

e; as, a field impurpled with blood. Impurpled with celestial roses, smiled. Milton. The silken fleece impurpled for the loom. Pope.