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A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which preceeds spinning.

Any kind of outer garment made of linen or cotton, as a night dress, or a smock frock. [Obs.] Halliwell.

State of being slope. Sir H. Wotton.

To lay to sleep. [R.] Wotton.

y frozen ground, a bog, etc., not strong enough to bear the person. The latter walk on a bottomless quag, into which unawares they may slump. Barrow.

A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

t was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.

Fig.: To absorb; to drain. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; - - much used as a comfortable piece of furniture. Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round. Cowper. Sofa bed, a sofa so contrived that it may be extended to form a bed; -- called also sofa bedstead.

The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot itself. The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Gen. viii. 9. Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet ceasest not thy weary soles to lead. Spenser.

Solemnness. Some think he wanted solemnes. Sir H. Wotton.

Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.

h straight sleeves, and skirts reaching to the ankles, and buttoned in front from top to bottom; especially, the black garment of this shape worn by the clergy in France and Italy as their daily dress; a cassock.

A grotto or cavern under ground. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

To draw out, and twist into threads, either by the hand or machinery; as, to spin wool, cotton, or flax; to spin goat's hair; to produce by drawing out and twisting a fibrous material. All the yarn she [Penelope] spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill Ithaca full of moths. Shak.

A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards; in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.

loyed in spinning. -- Spinning jenny (Mach.), an engine or machine for spinning wool or cotton, by means of a large number of spindles revolving simultaneously. -- Spinning mite (Zoöl.), the red spider. -- Spinning wheel, a machine for spinning yarn or thread, in which a wheel drives a single spindle, and is itself…

Lively; gay; vivid; airy. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton. The mind of man is of that spirituous, stirring nature, that it is perpetually at work. South.