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from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc. [Eng.] The importation of printed or stained colicoes appears to have been coeval with the establishment of the East India Company. Beck (Draper's Dict. ).…

The calico bass.

A style of calico printing, in which white or bright spots are produced upon cloth previously dyed of a uniform red or dark color, by discharging portions of the color by chemical means, while the rest of the cloth is under pressure. Ure.

Same as Calico bass.

(Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. -- Blue water, the open ocean. -- To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected. -- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism,…

sium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.

a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico- printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine.

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico. Shak.

commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes.

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other. Ure.

The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.

ra are curiously marked with red, black, and gray. -- Harlequin cabbage bug. (Zoöl.) See Calicoback. -- Harlequin caterpillar. (Zoöl.), the larva of an American bombycid moth (Euchætes egle) which is covered with black, white, yellow, and orange tufts of hair. -- Harlequin duck (Zoöl.), a North American duck (Histri…

n foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.

A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.

The calico bass.

A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. Ure. Lapping engine, Lapping machine (Textile Manuf.), A machine for forming fiber info a lap. See its Lap, 9.

so, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics. Lint doctor (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.