COTTON, noun 1. A soft downy substance, resembling fine wool, growing in the capsules or pods of a shrub, called the cotton-plant. It is the material of a large proportion of cloth for apparel and furniture. 2. Cloth made of cotton Lavender-cotton, a genus of plants, Santolina, of several species; shrubs cultivated in gardens. One species, the chamoecyparyssus or abrotanum foemina, female southernwood, is vulgarly called brotany. Philosophic cotton flowers of zink, which resemble cotton Silk-cotton tree, a genus of plants, the Bombax, growing to a great size in the Indies, and producing a kind of cotton in capsules. COTTON, adjective Pertaining to cotton; made of cotton; consisting of cotton; as cotton cloth; cotton stockings. COTTON, verb intransitive 1. To rise with a nap. 2. To cement; to unite with; a cant word.
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