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hich the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

One who fabricates; a manufacturer. Simmonds.

To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship.

The act of fabricating, framing, or constructing; construction; manufacture; as, the fabrication of a bridge, a church, or a government. Burke.

One who fabricates; one who constructs or makes. The fabricator of the works of Ossian. Mason.

A woman who fabricates.

Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural. [Obs.]

A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.

A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.

Tapestry; a rich figured fabric; especially, a screen or hangings of heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

A coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India.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

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

A soft fabric with a kind of basket weave and a diapered pattern.

A gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.

Without a base; having no foundation or support. "The baseless fabric of this vision." Shak.

A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- called also beetling machine. Knight.

ile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually of wool, and having a nap, used in bed clothing; also, a similar fabric used as a robe; or any fabric used as a cover for a horse.

e act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

A coarse woolen fabric, used for floor cloths, to cover carpets, etc.; -- so called from the town of Bocking, in England, where it was first made.