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A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc. By glimmering lanes and walls of canvas led. Tennyson.

e, generally of barren vein material. -- Flat cap, cap See Foolscap. -- Forage cap, the cloth undress head covering of an officer of soldier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a…

e harness or trappings of a horse, taken collectively, esp. when decorative. Their horses clothed with rich caparison. Drylen.

A roll or sliver of fiber (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. Card clothing, strips of wire-toothed card used for covering the cylinders of carding machines.

rchandise, or whatever is conveyed in a vessel or boat; load; freight. Cargoes of food or clothing. E. Everett.

Cloth or materials for carpets; carpets, in general. The floor was covered with rich carpeting. Prescott.

fulminate is contained in a rim surrounding its base. -- Cartridge bag, a bag of woolen cloth, to hold a charge for a cannon. -- Cartridge belt, a belt having pocket for cartridges. -- Cartridge box, a case, usually of leather, attached to a belt or strap, for holding cartridges. -- Cartridge paper. (a) A thick st…

A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments. [Written also kerseymere.]

A cloth with a cotton wart, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk.

Clothed with a cassock.

Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.

A heavy quality of broadcloth for overcoats.

nce intermediate between that of an ointment and a plaster, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.

by substituting something else for, or by giving up for something else; as, to change the clothes; to change one's occupation; to change one's intention. They that do change old love for new, Pray gods, they change for worse! Peele.

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

uares resembling the patten of a checkerboard; one of the squares of such a design; also, cloth having such a figure.

ood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth. Heaps of money crowded in the chest. Dryden.

A woolen fabric, for men's clothing.