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with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors. A new black baize waistcoat lined with silk. Pepys.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form.

A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

a, esp. T. ephemeræformis. The larva makes and carries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

chest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad. [Spelt also baudkin, baudkyn, bawdekin, and baldakin.] Nares.

A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk. A brown beaver slouched over his eyes. Prescott.

A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.

A kind of silk lace originally of the color of raw silk, now sometimes dyed; -- called also blond lace.

A compact package or roll of cloth, as of canvas or silk, often containing about forty yards.

ases for practice by students, as in the Inns of Court. [Obs.] Bolting cloth, wire, hair, silk, or other sieve cloth of different degrees of fineness; -- used by millers for sifting flour. McElrath. -- Bolting hutch, a bin or tub for the bolted flour or meal; (fig.) a receptacle.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. [Sometimes spelt bombasin, and bombasine.] Tomlinson.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

Silken; made of silk. [Obs.] Coles.

A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

A kind of light stuff, of silk and wool.