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Made of the wool of the merino sheep.

A thin woolen fabric, twilled like merino.

r ladies' dresses, either wholly of wool, or with cotton warp and wool weft. It resembles merino, but is not twilled.

Second best wool from Merino sheep. Gardner.

Having the qualities of gauze; thin; light; as, gauze merino underclothing.

s and values of the same general class of articles; as, a full line of hosiery; a line of merinos, etc. McElrath.

A light fabric of cotton and worsted, resembling bombazine or merino. Beck (Draper's Dict.)

reef (Naut.), a knot tied in the head of a jib-headed sail. -- Spanish sheep (Zoöl.), a merino. -- Spanish white, an impalpable powder prepared from chalk by pulverizing and repeated washings, -- used as a white pigment. -- Spanish windlass (Naut.), a wooden roller, with a rope wound about it, into which a marline…