[wool] Pronunciation Key | 1. | the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property. |
| 2. | fabrics and garments of such wool. |
| 3. | yarn made of such wool. |
| 4. | any of various substances used commercially as substitutes for the wool of sheep or other animals. |
| 5. | any of certain vegetable fibers, as cotton or flax, used as wool, esp. after preparation by special process (vegetable wool). |
| 6. | any finely fibrous or filamentous matter suggestive of the wool of sheep: glass wool; steel wool. |
| 7. | any coating of short, fine hairs or hairlike processes, as on a caterpillar or a plant; pubescence. |
| 8. | Informal. the human hair, esp. when short, thick, and crisp. |
| 9. | all wool and a yard wide, genuine; excellent; sincere: He was a real friend, all wool and a yard wide. |
| 10. | dyed in the wool, inveterate; confirmed: a dyed in the wool sinner. |
| 11. | pull the wool over someone's eyes, to deceive or delude someone: The boy thought that by hiding the broken dish he could pull the wool over his mother's eyes. |
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| wool
(wŏŏl) Pronunciation Key
n.
[Middle English wolle, from Old English wull.] wool adj. |
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wool
| wool | |
noun | |
| 1. | a fabric made from the hair of sheep |
| 2. | fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving |
| 3. | outer coat of especially sheep and yaks |
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WOOL
Window Object Oriented Language. A small Common Lisp-like extension language. It claims to be the fastest interpreted language in C with run-time types. Colas Nahaboo
(ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/gwm).
Wool Market, MS (CDP, FIPS 81200) Location: 30.46753 N, 88.99570 W
Population (1990): 1166 (472 housing units)
Area: 11.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Wool
Flan"nel\ (fl[a^]n"n[e^]l), n. [F. flanelle, cf. OF. flaine a pillowcase, a mattress (?); fr. W. gwlanen flannel, fr. gwlan wool; prob. akin to E. wool. Cf. Wool.] A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. --Shak. Adam's flannel. (Bot.) See under Adam. Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.
Wool
one of the first material used for making woven cloth (Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; 19:19). The first-fruit of wool was to be offered to the priests (Deut. 18:4). The law prohibiting the wearing of a garment "of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together" (Deut. 22:11) may, like some other laws of a similar character, have been intended to express symbolically the separateness and simplicity of God's covenant people. The wool of Damascus, famous for its whiteness, was of great repute in the Tyrian market (Ezek. 27:18).
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