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A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.

bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Ce…

A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

d and savage race of South Africa, with yellowish brown complexion, high cheek bones, and wooly hair growing in tufts.

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool.

A silky wool derived from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra (syn. Eriodendron anfractuosum), a bombaceous tree of the East and West Indies.

Cloth with the nap, generally of native black wool. [Scot.] Jamieson.

Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality.

A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple.

ervice the summer uniform of cotton is officially designated khaki; the winter uniform of wool, olive drab.

A linsey-woolsey fabric having a rough knotted surface on the right side; used for women's dresses.

a carpenter's plane with a deep narrow bit, for making curved grooves. Knight. -- Lamb's wool. (a) The wool of a lamb. (b) Ale mixed with the pulp of roasted apples; -- probably from the resemblance of the pulp of roasted apples to lamb's wool. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

The skin of a lamb; especially, a skin dressed with the wool on, and used as a mat. Also used adjectively.

A place for storing wool.