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A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. Craig.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

Flosculous.

One of a group of stalked rotifers, having ciliated tentacles around the lobed disk.

A floret.

Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.

A hopper-shaped box or Knight.

Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McE…

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude. The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade. Carew. To foreclose a mortgager (Law), to cut him off by a judgment of court from the power of redeeming the mortgaged premises, termed his equity of redemption. -- To foreclose a mortgage, (not technically corr…

The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.

Very much afraid. [Obs.] Bailey.

Fruitful; full of fruit.

Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub. Gray.

A clog or patten. [Obs.] Nor were worthy [to] unbuckle his galoche. Chaucer.

Same as Galoche, Galoshe.

Same as Galoche.

Divination by means of laughter.