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The seed of the cotton plant.

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 seed of the flax; linseed.

Any strange sight. Wright.

Dog's-tail grass.

The offspring of a hag. Shak.

A climbing plant of the genus Cardiospermum, having round seeds which are marked with a spot like a heart. Loudon.

The seeds of flax, from which linseed oil is obtained. [Written also lintseed.] Linseed cake, the solid mass or cake which remains when oil is expressed. -- Linseed meal, linseed cake reduced to powder. -- Linseed oil, oil obtained by pressure from flaxseed.

See Linseed.

A perennial herb (Phryma Leptostachya), having slender seedlike fruits.

The seed of the opium poppy.

A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.

Seed from which oil is expressed, as the castor bean; also, the plant yielding such seed. See Castor bean.

A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

The seed of sesame.

A seed or fruit resembling in shape an insect, as that of certain plants.

The seed of sesame.

Any plant of the genus Geissois, having seeds overlapping like tiles on a roof.

The seeds of a small tree (Croton Pavana) common in the Malay Archipelago. These seeds furnish croton oil, like those of Croton Tiglium. [Written also tilly.]