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

Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) Whatever is produced for the nourishment or enjoyment of man or animals by the processes of vegetable growth, as corn, grass, cotton, flax, etc.; -- commonly used in the plural..

Collodion :: Collodion (n.) A solution of pyroxylin (soluble gun cotton) in ether containing a varying proportion of alcohol. It is strongly adhesive, and is used by surgeons as a coating for wounds; but its chief application is as a vehicle for the sensitive film in photography..

Variety :: Variety (n.) A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks..

Bat :: Bat (n.) A sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.

Cotton :: Cotton (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half..

Mule :: Mule (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny..

Drogher :: Drogher (n.) A small craft used in the West India Islands to take off sugars, rum, etc., to the merchantmen; also, a vessel for transporting lumber, cotton, etc., coastwise; as, a lumber drogher..

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

Pique :: Pique (n.) A cotton fabric, figured in the loom, -- used as a dress goods for women and children, and for vestings, etc..

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

Insulite :: Insulite (n.) An insulating material, usually some variety of compressed cellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc..

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

Alpaca :: Alpaca (n.) A thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with 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..

Tricot :: Tricot (n.) A fabric of woolen, silk, or cotton knitted, or women to resemble knitted work..

Grounding :: Grounding (n.) The act, method, or process of laying a groundwork or foundation; hence, elementary instruction; the act or process of applying a ground, as of color, to wall paper, cotton cloth, etc.; a basis..

Batiste :: Batiste (n.) Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton..

Picker :: Picker (n.) One who, or that which, picks, in any sense, -- as, one who uses a pick; one who gathers; a thief; a pick; a pickax; as, a cotton picker..

Corduroy :: Corduroy (n.) A sort of cotton velveteen, having the surface raised in ridges..

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