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Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. Wool of bat and tongue of dog. Shak.

Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece- dyed; ingrain.

A trade market in the woolen districts. [Eng.]

To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it.

A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding.

The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast.

Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep.

Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods.

A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette.]

The barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also oolert, and owlerd.]

A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. [Written also woolfel.]

Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton.

One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n.

The buffel duck.

The quality or state of being woolly.

Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.

A negro. [Low]

One who deals in wool.

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.