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Ginhouse :: Ginhouse (n.) A building where cotton is ginned.

Cabin :: Cabin (n.) A cottage or small house; a hut.

Narcotic :: Narcotic (n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium..

Bordar :: Bordar (n.) A villein who rendered menial service for his cottage; a cottier.

Wainscot :: Wainscot (n.) A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usually made in panels..

Throstle :: Throstle (n.) A machine for spinning wool, cotton, etc., from the rove, consisting of a set of drawing rollers with bobbins and flyers, and differing from the mule in having the twisting apparatus stationary and the processes continuous; -- so called because it makes a singing noise..

Ell :: Ell (n.) A measure for cloth; -- now rarely used. It is of different lengths in different countries; the English ell being 45 inches, the Dutch or Flemish ell 27, the Scotch about 37..

Cothurnate :: Cothurnate (a.) Alt. of Cothurnate.

Cothurn :: Cothurn (n.) A buskin anciently used by tragic actors on the stage; hence, tragedy in general..

Cotton :: Cotton (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below..

Coquelicot :: Coquelicot (n.) The color of the wild poppy; a color nearly red, like orange mixed with scarlet..

Cothurnated :: Cothurnated (a.) Wearing a cothurn.

Bombax :: Bombax (n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax..

Hectocotylus :: Hectocotylus (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes..

Scotch :: Scotch (n.) A slight cut or incision; a score.

Cottar :: Cottar (n.) A cottager; a cottier.

Burgess :: Burgess (n.) An inhabitant of a Scotch burgh qualified to vote for municipal officers.

Cotyle :: Cotyle (n.) A cuplike cavity or organ. Same as Acetabulum.

Sowens :: Sowens (n. pl.) A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England..

Seersucker :: Seersucker (n.) A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance..

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