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flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. "Caddises, cambrics, lawns." Shak.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

th blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

urg grape. See under Black. -- Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

at which is set in or inserted, especially a narrow strip of embroidered lace, muslin, or cambric.

Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; -- used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc. "In linen white as milk." Robert of Brunne.

so applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. Muslin cambric. See Cambric. -- Muslin delaine, a light woolen fabric for women's dresses. See Delaine. [Written also mousseline de laine.]

That which is ruffled; specifically, a strip of lace, cambric, or other fine cloth, plaited or gathered on one edge or in the middle, and used as a trimming; a frill.

the proper organs; liable to be affected physsically or mentally; impressible. Would your cambric were sensible as your finger. Shak.

A British trout usually regarded as a variety (var. Cambricus) of the salmon trout.