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Linsey-woolsey.

A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth.

In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [Obs.]

A wearing of woolen clothes next the skin as a matter of penance. [Obs.] Their . . . woolward-going, and rising at midnight. Tyndale.

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Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed.

Among weaves, yarn for the warp. Hence, abb wool is wool for the abb.

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

re by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal.

An animal of Peru (Lama paco), having long, fine, wooly hair, supposed by some to be a domesticated variety of the llama.

A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariæ. The larvæ are commonly confounded with moths.

A material of wool or silk used for working the figures in embroidery.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

, a beetle (Dermestes lardarius) which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's self or property from harm or less. [Colloq.]

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

A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress.

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

A home-made woolen blanket without nap. [Local, New York] Bartlett.

Woolen yarn. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.