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noun. Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.

noun. The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.

noun. Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.

noun. Any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.

intransitive verb. To take a liking; attempt to be friendly.

intransitive verb. To come to understand. Often used with to or onto.

noun. Same as Kafir *cotton.

noun. See cotton-weed, 3.

noun. Same as Natal *cotton .

To rise with a nap, like cotton.

To envelop in cotton; hence, to coddle; make much of.

To agree; suit; fit or go well together.

To become closely or intimately associated (with); acquire a strong liking (for); take (to): absolutely or with to, formerly with.

noun. The white fibrous substance clothing the seeds of the cotton-plant (Gossypium). See cut under cotton-plant.

noun. Cloth made of cotton.

noun. Thread made of cotton: as, a spool of cotton contains 200 yards.

noun. The wick of a candle.

noun. The cotton-plant; cotton-plants collectively.

Made of cotton; consisting of cotton: as, cotton cloth.

intransitive verb. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.

intransitive verb. To go on prosperously; to succeed.

intransitive verb. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.

intransitive verb. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

noun. 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.

noun. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.

noun. Cloth made of cotton.

noun. See Cambric, n., 2.

noun. the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel.

noun. a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney.

noun. a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton.

noun. a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops.

noun. a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum.

noun. a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton.

noun. a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton.

noun. a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant.

noun. Same as Cotton plant.

noun. a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug.

noun. the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle.

noun. velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton.

noun. the refuse of cotton mills.

noun. cotton in its raw or woolly state.

noun. a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm.

noun. A plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.

noun. A type of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.

noun. The textile made from the fiber harvested from the cotton plant.

noun. An item of clothing made from cotton.

adjective. Made of cotton.

verb. To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.

noun. fabric woven from cotton fibers

"Vermont, in the year following, the _cotton gin_ was invented, and an unparalleled impulse given to the cultivation of cotton."

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