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Alabama; -- a nickname.

A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

See Cudweed.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

The bassoon; -- so called from being divided into parts for ease of carriage, making, as it were, a small fagot.

Having an even lower surface or bottom; as, a flat-bottomed boat.

Full and large at the bottom, as wigs worn by certain civil officers in Great Britain.

Of or pertaining to glottology.

A linguist; a philologist.

The science of tongues or languages; comparative philology; glossology.

A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto. Cowper.

See under Gun.

stakes after a certain percentage of them has been deducted for the dealer. A variety of lotto is called keno. [Often written loto.]