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A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets.

A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries. [U.S.]

A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze. [Written also duffle.] Good duffel gray and flannel fine. Wordsworth.

rs. Trench. The soul is dyed by its thoughts. Lubbock. To dye in the grain, To dye in the wool (Fig.), to dye firmly; to imbue thoroughly. He might truly be termed a legitimate son of the revenue system dyed in the wool. Hawthorne.

The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc.

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

"Empress of my soul." Shak. Empress cloth, a cloth for ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

; -- usually followed by for before the thing received. Exchange his sheep for shells, or wool for a sparking pebble or a diamond. Locke.

To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

A stout woolen cloth of great thickness; dreadnaught; also, a warm garment.

ose bag containing feed for a horse or mule. -- Feed cloth, an apron for leading cotton, wool, or other fiber, into a machine, as for carding, etc. -- Feed door, a door to a furnace, by which to supply coal. -- Feed head. (a) A cistern for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal…

A skin or hide of a beast with the wool or hair on; a pelt; -- used chiefly in composition, as woolfell. We are still handling our ewes, and their fells, you know, are greasy. Shak.

A dealer in fells or sheepskins, who separates the wool from the pelts.

A cloth or stuff made of matted fibers of wool, or wool and fur, fulled or wrought into a compact substance by rolling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

A stuff made of silk and wool. I did buy a colored silk ferrandine. Pepys.

A kind of narrow tape, usually made of woolen; sometimes of cotton or silk; -- called also ferreting.

Second best wool from Merino sheep. Gardner.

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. (Bot.) See under Adam. -- Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.