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Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep.

carlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Is. i. 18. A maid jet rosed over with the virgin crimson of modesty. Shak.

A dirty or clotted lock of wool on a sheep; a taglock.

Acoarse woolen fabric made of daglocks, or the refuse of wool. "Under coverlets made of dagswain." Holinshed.

A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.

A kind of woolen or mixed dress goods. [Written also debage.]

To remove grease or fatty matter from, as wool or silk.

To depreciate or cry down. [R.] Bp. Woolton.

e larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

The staff for holding a bunch of flax, tow, or wool, from which the thread is drawn in spinning by hand. I will the distaff hold; come thou and spin. Fairfax.

; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been done…

To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off. Halliwell.

A firm woolen cloth with a smooth, soft surface like a doe's skin; -- made for men's wear.

A kind of woolen stuff. [Obs.] "Some doily petticoats." Dryden. A fool and a doily stuff, would now and then find days of grace, and be worn for variety. Congreve.

A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.

Feathery or wool-like down; filament of a feather. Shak. No feather, or dowle of a feather. De Quincey.

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

A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also drabcloth.

A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.

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