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noun. The dense, soft, often curly hair forming the coat of sheep and certain other mammals, such as the goat and alpaca, consisting of cylindrical strands of keratin covered by minute overlapping scales and much valued as a textile fiber.

noun. Fabric or yarn made of this hair.

noun. Hairy or downy material on a plant or animal, as on certain caterpillars.

noun. Filamentous or fibrous material similar to the wool of a sheep or other mammal.

To pull the hair of, in sport or anger; rumple or tousle the hair of.

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noun. See the extract.

noun. The fine, soft, curly hair which forms the fleece or fleecy coat of the sheep and some other animals, as the goat and alpaca, in fineness approaching fur.

noun. The fine, short, thick underfur or down of any animal, as distinguished from the longer and stiffer hairs which come to the surface of the pelage.

noun. The short, crisp, curly or kinky hair of the head of some persons, as negroes; humorously, the hair of any person's head.

noun. Any light, downy, fleecy, or flocculent sub stance resembling wool.

noun. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates.

noun. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.

noun. A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants.

noun. wool pulled from a carcass.

noun. See under Mineral.

noun. See Zinc oxide, under Zinc.

noun. wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide.

noun. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral.

noun. a ball or mass of wool.

noun. one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth.

noun. A machine for combing wool.

noun. a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes.

noun. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a.

noun. a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep.

noun. a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale.

noun. One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes.

noun. a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale.

noun. The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.

noun. A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.

noun. Anything with a texture like that of wool.

adjective. this sense?) Made of wool.

noun. fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving

noun. a fabric made from the hair of sheep

noun. outer coat of especially sheep and yaks

"England as to run wool to France, our ladies, by making use of wool as part of their head-dresses [_lets down the tail and takes out the wool_], keep it at home, and encourage the woollen manufactory."

angora wool  berlin wool  camel's wool  cape wool  carbon wool  

andalusian wool  breech wool  burry wool  cotton wool  dead pulled wool  

cloth  coat  fabric  material  pelage  

Bull  bull  full  pull  

blanket  canvas  carpet  cloth  cotton  

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