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Definition of flax

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Flax (n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed..

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Ret :: Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment..

Water-rot :: Water-rot (v. t.) To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax..

Calcarated :: Calcarated (a.) Having a spur, as the flower of the toadflax and larkspur; spurred..

Willow :: Willow (v. t.) To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2..

Hurds :: Hurds (n.) The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.

Hackle :: Hackle (v. t.) To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel..

Hatchel :: Hatchel (n.) An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle..

Comb :: Comb (n.) A toothed instrument used for separating and cleansing wool, flax, hair, etc..

Flaxseed :: Flaxseed (n.) The seed of the flax; linseed.

Flaxweed :: Flaxweed (n.) See Toadflax.

Dewrot :: Dewrot (v. t.) To rot, as flax or hemp, by exposure to rain, dew, and sun. See Dewretting..

Spaad :: Spaad (n.) A kind of spar; earth flax, or amianthus..

Stuped :: Stupe (v. t.) Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.

Spreadingly :: Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Cretonne :: Cretonne (n.) A strong white fabric with warp of hemp and weft of flax.

Capsule :: Capsule (n.) a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts or carpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of the poppy, the flax, the lily, etc..

Scutch :: Scutch (n.) The woody fiber of flax; the refuse of scutched flax.

Flax :: Flax (n.) The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing..

Card :: Card (n.) An instrument for disentangling and arranging the fibers of cotton, wool, flax, etc.; or for cleaning and smoothing the hair of animals; -- usually consisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back..

Flax :: Flax (n.) A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed..