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Paste :: Paste (n.) A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color..

Calicoes :: Calicoes (pl. ) of Calic.

Calico :: Calico (n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

Print :: Print (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth..

Wash :: Wash (v. i.) To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash..

Doctor :: Doctor (n.) Any mechanical contrivance intended to remedy a difficulty or serve some purpose in an exigency; as, the doctor of a calico-printing machine, which is a knife to remove superfluous coloring matter; the doctor, or auxiliary engine, called also donkey engine..

Print :: Print (v. t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico..

Lapping :: Lapping (n.) A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.

Dung :: Dung (v. t.) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant..

Dress Goods :: Dress goods () A term applied to fabrics for the gowns of women and girls; -- most commonly to fabrics of mixed materials, but also applicable to silks, printed linens, and calicoes..

Fondus :: Fondus (n.) A style of printing calico, paper hangings, etc., in which the colors are in bands and graduated into each other..

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..

Turnbull''s Blue :: Turnbull's blue () The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian..

Calicoback :: Calicoback (n.) The calico bass.

Lactarene :: Lactarene (n.) A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico..

Kalmia :: Kalmia (n.) A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc..

Repeat :: Repeat (n.) That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.)..

Cyanine :: Cyanine (n.) One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

Lamplighter :: Lamplighter (n.) The calico bass.

Dowlas :: Dowlas (n.) A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico..

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