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

A negro. [Low]

The Scythian lamb, a kind of woolly-skinned rootstock. See Barometz.

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

mal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.

like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

A species of leopard (Cynælurus jubatus) tamed and used for hunting in India. The woolly cheetah of South Africa is C. laneus. [Written also chetah.]

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

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

A little, perennial, white, woolly plant (Leontopodium alpinum), growing at high elevations in the Alps.

A Brazilian apocynaceous vine (Macrosiphonia longiflora) having woolly leaves.

Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. Gray.

A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

The great woolly mullein (Verbascum Thapsus).

bombycid moths, as of the Isabella moth. It curls up like a hedgehog when disturbed. See Woolly bear, and Isabella moth. -- Hedgehog fish (Zoöl.), any spinose plectognath fish, esp. of the genus Diodon; the porcupine fish. -- Hedgehog grass (Bot.), a grass with spiny involucres, growing on sandy shores; burgrass (Ce…

Infolded; entangled; complicated; involved. [Obs.] Milton. In his woolly fleece I cling implicit. Pope.

A common American moth (Pyrrharctia isabella), of an isabella color. The larva, called woolly bear and hedgehog caterpillar, is densely covered with hairs, which are black at each end of the body, and red in the middle part.

The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

the surface divided into spiny longitudinal ridges, and bearing at the top a prickly and woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than…