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hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool; esp.:

A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when taken out of the boiling pans.

A genus of liliaceous plants with woody stems and funnel-shaped flowers.

A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.

, [of the snow] pure and white, Soft falling, falling, through the night, Have draped the woods and mere. Bungay.

Cloth, or woolen stuffs in general. People who ought to be weighing out grocery or measuring out drapery. Macaulay.

a chimney wherein the air is rarefied by heat. -- On draught, so as to be drawn from the wood (as a cask, barrel, etc.) in distinction from being bottled; as, ale on draught. -- Sheer draught. See under Sheer.

incision along the path a saw is to follow, to prevent it from tearing the surface of the wood.

A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.

Of vegetable matter: Free from juices or sap; not succulent; not green; as, dry wood or hay.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A wood nymph; a nymph whose life was bound up with that of her tree.

An explosive substance consisting essentially of sawdust or wood pulp, saturated with nitroglycerin and other similar nitro compounds. It is inferior to dynamite, and is more liable to explosion.

A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.

A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

A piece of wood set between two studs, posts, etc., to stiffen and support them.

rs. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.