"Cotton" is a word in ENGLISH
Cloth made of cotton.
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used
with to.
To go on prosperously; to succeed.
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
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.
To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed
by with.
Identity politics divides us; fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations, the other in nuances. One draws boundaries, the other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks; fiction is flowing water.
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A fine cotton cloth of India.
Read the complete definitionágpang - A hank of yarn or thread. Also used as a verb. Agpangá ang binúlung nga búlak sang búlak. …
Read the complete definitionalgodón - (Sp. algodon) Cotton, cotton cloth, cotton thread. (cf. búlak, búrak; hílo).
Read the complete definitionalgudun n cotton as manufactured, commercial cotton.
Read the complete definitionA thin kind of cloth made of the wooly hair of the alpaca, often mixed with silk or with cotton.
Read the complete definitionn. smoke or smell of smoke of burning cloth. paper etc. v. /AG-/ to burn cotton, cloth, etc. in order …
Read the complete definitionThe larva of a small two-winged fly (Sciara), which marches in large companies, in regular order. See Cotton worm, under …
Read the complete definitionA lepidopterous insect, which in the larval state often travels in great multitudes from field to field, destroying grass, grain, …
Read the complete definitionv. /MANG-:-EN/ to pull back or toward oneself. Awidem dayta tugaw ditoy. Pull that chair back here. 3 AWID; SANGKAAWID, …
Read the complete definitionA coarse stuff, usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.
Read the complete definitionTo form or wind into a ball; as, to ball cotton.
Read the complete definitionA species of silk or cotton handkerchief, having a uniformly dyed ground, usually of red or blue, with white or …
Read the complete definitionA gauzelike fabric for ladies' dresses, veils, etc. of worsted, silk and worsted, or cotton and worsted.
Read the complete definitionA sheet of cotton used for filling quilts or comfortables; batting.
Read the complete definitionv. /MANG-:-EN/ to beat: said of cotton and other fibers; to scutch. Batbatam dayta kapas. Beat that kapok.
Read the complete definitionOriginally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.
Read the complete definitionCotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.
Read the complete definitionA kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.
Read the complete definitionTo finish by subjecting to a hammering process in a beetle or beetling machine; as, to beetle cotton goods.
Read the complete definitionA machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; -- …
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