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Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk. -- Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; -- called also linen floss, and floss yarn. McE…

A flowering; florification. [R.] Craig.

Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

A floss or waste obtained from the cocoon after the silk has been reeled off, used for shag.

A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.

See Floss silk, under Floss.

Silk not yet twisted; floss; -- called also sleave silk. Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care. Shak.

nient carriage, as on a military expedition. -- Spun silk, a cheap article produced from floss, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. -- Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely…