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Dispassionate :: Dispassionate (a.) Free from passion; not warped, prejudiced, swerved, or carried away by passion or feeling; judicial; calm; composed..

Cretonne :: Cretonne (n.) A fabric with cotton warp and woolen weft.

Guess Warp :: Guess warp () A rope or hawser by which a vessel is towed or warped along; -- so called because it is necessary to guess at the length to be carried in the boat making the attachment to a distant object.

Let-off :: Let-off (n.) A device for letting off, releasing, or giving forth, as the warp from the cylinder of a loom..

Cast :: Cast (n.) Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance..

Melton :: Melton (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

Cram :: Cram (n.) A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed.

Reed :: Reed (n.) A frame having parallel flat stripe of metal or reed, between which the warp threads pass, set in the swinging lathe or batten of a loom for beating up the weft; a sley. See Batten..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To cast prematurely, as young; -- said of cattle, sheep, etc..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To run off the reel into hauls to be tarred, as yarns..

Separator :: Separator (n.) An instrument used for spreading apart the threads of the warp in the loom, etc..

Warper :: Warper (n.) One who, or that which, forms yarn or thread into warps or webs for the loom..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached to a buoy, anchor, or other fixed object..

Bombazine :: Bombazine (n.) A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments..

Warping :: Warping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of War.

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To weave; to fabricate.

Harness :: Harness (n.) The part of a loom comprising the heddles, with their means of support and motion, by which the threads of the warp are alternately raised and depressed for the passage of the shuttle..

Slasher :: Slasher (n.) A machine for applying size to warp yarns.

Gauche :: Gauche (n.) Winding; twisted; warped; -- applied to curves and surfaces.

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