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To expose, as flax, on the grass for bleaching, etc.

A comb for dressing flax, raw silk, etc.; a hatchel.

A filamentous substance; especially, the filaments of flax or hemp.

An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.

The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.

Flax; linen. [Obs.] "Garments made of line." Spenser.

Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc. "In linen white as milk." Robert of Brunne.

Bearing flax; producing linen.

Flax. See Linen. [Obs.]

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.

Flax.

A genus of herbaceous plants including the flax (Linum usitatissimum).

alled because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanning. -- Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus. -- Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under Fumitory. -- Mountain goat. (Zoöl.) See Mazama. -- Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green…

in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptosp…

The coarse portion separated from flax or hemp in nackling. Knight. White oakum, that made from untarred rope.

taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleaching flax and straw, the preparation of formic acid, and in salts of lemon for removing ink stains, mold, etc.

A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.

The head; the back part of the head. "All flaxen was his poll." Shak.