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A rough, knotted woolen cloth, used chiefly for men's overcoats; also, a coat of that material.

One who supplies rolls of wool to the slubbing machine in woolen mills.

A smooth woolen stuff, generally black, used for making shoes; a kind of lasting; -- formerly used also for clergymen's gowns.

e of disks of cloth clamped together on a mandrel. -- Rag wool, wool obtained by tearing woolen rags into fine bits, shoddy.

A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.

A woolen stuff thinner than ratteen.

An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton; or silk and wool; sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.

A kind of dress goods made of cotton or woolen, with a glossy surface resembling satin.

A kind of cloth made of cotton warp and woolen filling, used chiefly for trousers.

A kind of glossy woolen cloth formerly much used.

A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.

A delicate kind of serge, or woolen cloth. [Obs.] His garment neither was of silk nor say. Spenser.

nace. Raymond. -- Scouring rush. (Bot.) See Dutch rush, under Dutch. -- Scouring stock (Woolen Manuf.), a kind of fulling mill.

A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

in distinction from dress, full dress, etc. In the United States army it is of olive-drab woolen or khaki-colored cotton, with all metal attachments of dull-finish bronze, with the exceptional of insignia of rank, which are of gold or silver finish.

shepherds. -- Shepherd's needle (Bot.), the lady's comb. -- Shepherd's plaid, a kind of woolen cloth of a checkered black and white pattern. -- Shephered spider (Zoöl.), a daddy longlegs, or harvestman. -- Shepherd's pouch, or Shepherd's purse (Bot.), an annual cruciferous plant (Capsella Bursapastoris) bearing sma…

A fibrous material obtained by "deviling," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.

A kind of woolen cloth. [Written also stamine.] [Obs.]