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A turkish fabric of silk and cotton, with gold thread interwoven.

Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed. Swift.

of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments; specifically, woolen fabrics, as distinguished from all others.

A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a containing for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography. Collodion process (Photog.), a process in which a film of sensit…

See Coamings. Combing machine (Textile Manuf.), a machine for combing wool, flax, cotton, etc., and separating the longer and more valuable fiber from the shorter. See also Carding machine, under Carding.

An overweening idea of one's self; vanity. Plumed with conceit he calls aloud. Cotton.

A policeman. [Slang] Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly

A smokeless powder composed of nitroglycerin, guncotton, and mineral jelly, and used by the British army and in other services. In making it the ingredients are mixed into a paste with the addition of acetone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A…

A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges.

In the West Indies: (1) Either of the cotton trees Ochroma lagopus and Pariti tiliaceum. (2)

A product from cottonseed, used as lard.

A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.

A small composite plant with cottony or silky stem and leaves, primarily a species of Gnaphalium, but the name is now given to many plants of different genera, as Filago, Antennaria, etc.; cottonweed.

. Friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. Milton. Yet still we hug the dear deceit. N. Cotton.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.

a loud report. -- Detonating primer, a primer exploded by a fuse; -- used to explode gun cotton in blasting operations. -- Detonating tube, a strong tube of glass, usually graduated, closed at one end, and furnished with two wires passing through its sides at opposite points, and nearly meeting, for the purpose of ex…

stantaneous decomposition or combustion of unstable substances' as, the detonation of gun cotton.