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ing fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

The seed of the cotton plant.

Alabama; -- a nickname.

A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.

Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [Obs.] Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

See Cudweed.

An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.

Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly.

See under Gun.

A fine cotton cloth of India.

A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.

aused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.

States is Leucania unipuncta. The name is often applied to other related species, as the cotton worm.

A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

To form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.