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Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.

all North American tree (Gymnocladus Canadensis) with bipinnate leaves. It produces large woody pods containing a few seeds which have been used as a substitute for coffee. The timber is a very valuable.

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

A piece of wood used as a wedge.

ervice the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.

e (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.

. See Kyaboca wood.

A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.

A small anchor; also, a kind of anchor formed by a stone inclosed by pieces of wood fastened together. [Written also killick.]

An earth of a blackish or deep blue color. Woodward.

sting of resonant stones or metal plates, arranged according to their tones in a frame of wood, and struck with a hammer.

A wooden tub or pail, smaller at the top than at the bottom; as, a kit of butter, or of mackerel. Wright.

A game played by striking with a stick small piece of wood, called a cat, shaped like two coned united at their bases; tipcat. Cotton. Kitcat roll (Agric.), a roller somewhat in the form of two cones set base to base. [Prov. Eng.]

A light frame of wood or other material covered with paper or cloth, for flying in the air at the end of a string.

One of two or more pieces of bone or wood held loosely between the fingers, and struck together by moving the hand; -- called also clapper. Halliwell.

A knot in wood; a protuberance. Wright.

A knot in wood. See Gnarl.

A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.