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espitous or turfy plant has many stems from the same root, usually forming a close, thick carpet of matting. Martyn.

A civilian; a carpetmonger. [Obs.]

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

A cloth to be laid under a dining table to receive falling fragments, and keep the carpet or floor clean. [Written also crumcloth.]

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Full of devices; inventive. [R.] A carpet, rich, and of deviceful thread. Chapman.

amask, originally made at Tournay (in Flemish, Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

e woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

One of the yarns of the worsted warp in a Brussels carpet.

air-weather sailor, a make-believe or inexperienced sailor; -- the nautical equivalent of carpet knight.

Pertaining to, or resembling, fluff or nap; soft and downy. "The carpets were fluffy." Thackeray. The present Barnacle . . . had a youthful aspect, and the fluffiest little whisker, perhaps, that ever was seen. Dickens. -- Fluff"i*ness, n.

r convenience or decoration in a house or apartment, as tables, chairs, bedsteads, sofas, carpets, curtains, pictures, vases, etc.

ce, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. -- Triple ingrain carpet, a three-ply carpet.

A kind of ingrain carpeting, named from the English town where formerly most of it was manufactured.

A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. [Obs.] Carpet knight. See under Carpet. -- Knight of industry. See Chevalier d'industrie, under Chevalier. -- Knight of Malta, Knight of Rhodes, Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. See Hospitaler. -- Knight of the post, one who gained his living by givin…

In carpet weaving, a group of strings for lifting simultaneously certain yarns, to form the figure.

n or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

; a matlike fabric, for use in covering floors, packing articles, and the like; a kind of carpeting made of straw, etc.

A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

etc., esp. the larvæ of several species of beetles of the genera Dermestes and Anthrenus. Carpet moths are often the larvæ of Anthrenus. See Carpet beetle, under Carpet, Dermestes, Anthrenus.