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Calico :: Calico (n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc..

Pyrothonide :: Pyrothonide (n.) A kind of empyreumatic oil produced by the combustion of textures of hemp, linen, or cotton in a copper vessel, -- formerly used as a remedial agent..

Cotton :: Cotton (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

Haik :: Haik (n.) A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as an outer garment.

Interest :: Interest (n.) The persons interested in any particular business or measure, taken collectively; as, the iron interest; the cotton interest..

Nap :: Nap (n.) Woolly or villous surface of felt, cloth, plants, etc.; an external covering of down, of short fine hairs or fibers forming part of the substance of anything, and lying smoothly in one direction; the pile; -- as, the nap of cotton flannel or of broadcloth..

Cashmere :: Cashmere (n.) A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere..

Velveteen :: Velveteen (n.) A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet; cotton velvet..

Quilt :: Quilt (n.) Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any outer bed cover..

Freight :: Freight (n.) That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight..

Cottony :: Cottony (a.) Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly..

Fustian :: Fustian (n.) A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc..

Trinitrocellulose :: Trinitrocellulose (n.) Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.

Beaverteen :: Beaverteen (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing..

Bandana :: Bandana (n.) A species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or yellow figures of a circular, lozenge, or other simple form..

Winder :: Winder (n.) An apparatus used for winding silk, cotton, etc., on spools, bobbins, reels, or the like..

Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine.

Percale :: Percale (n.) A fine cotton fabric, having a linen finish, and often printed on one side, -- used for women's and children's wear..

Tonite :: Tonite (n.) An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

Bobbinet :: Bobbinet (n.) A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand..

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