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A fabric of threads, cords, or wires crossing each other at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

A light fabric of wool, worn on the head by women; a cloud.

A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)

omen, originally of fur, or lined with fur; a lady's outer garment, made of silk or other fabric.

A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear.

A thin silk fabric, used formerly for linings. Beck.

A fine fabric for scarfs, handkerchiefs, embroidery, etc., woven from the fiber obtained from the leaf of the sterile pineapple plant. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a tinge of pale yellow.

a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch. Pick dressing (Arch.), in cut stonework, a facing made by a pointed tool, leaving the surface in little pits or depressions. -- Pick hammer, a pick with one end sharp and the o…

The act or method of decorating fabrics or garments with a pinking iron; also, the style of decoration; scallops made with a pinking iron. Pinking iron. (a) An instrument for scalloping the edges of ribbons, flounces, etc. (b) A sword. [Colloq.]

ists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.

A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc.

A textile fabric with a nap or shag on one side, longer and softer than the nap of velvet. Cowper.

A fabric of undyed silk from India and China.

A fabric of many varieties, usually made of silk and worsted, - - used especially for women's dresses. Irish poplin, a fabric with silk warp and worsted weft, made in Ireland.

et the foot of a post in. -- Post mill, a form of windmill so constructed that the whole fabric rests on a vertical axis firmly fastened to the ground, and capable of being turned as the direction of the wind varies. -- Post and stall (Coal Mining), a mode of working in which pillars of coal are left to support the r…

The black species (Lytta atrata), the striped (L. vittata), and the gray (L. cinerea, or Fabricii) are the most common. See Blister beetle, under Blister. -- Potato rot, a disease of the tubers of the potato, supposed to be caused by a kind of mold (Peronospora infestans), which is first seen upon the leaves and stem…

ng, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.

A curtain or screen; also, a cotton fabric in blue and white stripes, used for curtains. McElrath.

To forge again or anew; hence, to fashion or fabricate anew; to make over. Udall.