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Pullicate :: Pullicate (n.) A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

Cassinette :: Cassinette (n.) A cloth with a cotton warp, and a woof of very fine wool, or wool and silk..

Chintz :: Chintz (n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed..

Jane :: Jane (n.) A kind of twilled cotton cloth. See Jean.

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..

Dyeing :: Dyeing (n.) The process or art of fixing coloring matters permanently and uniformly in the fibers of wool, cotton, etc..

Candroy :: Candroy (n.) A machine for spreading out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.

Bergamot :: Bergamot (n.) A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit..

Roving :: Roving (n.) The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine..

Cotton :: Cotton (n.) Cloth made of cotton.

Press :: Press (v.) To squeeze in or with suitable instruments or apparatus, in order to compact, make dense, or smooth; as, to press cotton bales, paper, etc.; to smooth by ironing; as, to press clothes..

Cotton :: Cotton (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does..

Dry Goods :: Dry goods () A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries..

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..

Reel :: Reel (n.) A machine on which yarn is wound and measured into lays and hanks, -- for cotton or linen it is fifty-four inches in circuit; for worsted, thirty inches..

Pick :: Pick (v.) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points; as, to pick matted wool, cotton, oakum, etc..

Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce or form by labor; to bring forth by exertion or toil; to accomplish; to originate; to effect; as, to work wood or iron into a form desired, or into a utensil; to work cotton or wool into cloth..

Leno :: Leno (n.) A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

Cottonade :: Cottonade (n.) A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton.

Cotton :: Cotton (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.

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