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An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders, etc., made in part of India rubber. [Colloq.]

A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; -- called also Venus's flower-basket.

Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

The woof in woven fabrics.

A platform of hurdles, or small sticks made fast or interwoven, supported by stanchions, for drying codfish and other things. You shall also, after they be ripe, neither suffer them to have straw nor fern under them, but lay them either upon some smooth table, boards, or flakes of wands, and they will last the longer.…

- Floating threads (Weaving), threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.

ation; figure; external appearance. The form of his visage was changed. Dan. iii. 19. And woven close close, both matter, form, and style. Milton.

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consisting sometimes of projecting ends, twisted or plaited together, and sometimes of loose threads of wool, silk, or linen, or narrow strips of leather, or the like.…

Not firmly woven; that ravels. [Written also fozy.] [Prov. Eng.]

tton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

It is common in marshy places in the United States. -- Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread. -- Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. -- Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by was…

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.

To interlock, as the fingers of two hands that are joined; to be interwoven; to commingle. Owen.

The act of interweaving, or the state of being interwoven; that which is interwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

Interwoven. [R.] Shak.

x or unite in texture or construction; to intertwine; as, threads of silk and cotton interwoven. Under the hospitable covert nigh Of trees thick interwoven. Milton.

Inwrought; woven in.