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lint

  [lint]
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–noun
1. minute shreds or ravelings of yarn; bits of thread.
2. staple cotton fiber used to make yarn.
3. cotton waste produced by the ginning process.
4. a soft material for dressing wounds, procured by scraping or otherwise treating linen cloth.
Origin:
1325–75; ME, var. of linnet; cf. MF linette linseed, OE līnet- flax (or flax-field) in līnetwige lintwhite

Related forms:
lintless, adjective
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lint   (lĭnt)   
n.  

  1. Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz.

  2. Downy material obtained by scraping linen cloth and used for dressing wounds.

  3. The mass of soft fibers surrounding the seeds of unginned cotton.


[Middle English, variant of linet (from Old French linette, grain of flax, diminutive of lin, flax) or from Medieval Latin linteum, lint (from Latin, linen cloth), both from Latin līnum, flax; see lno- in Indo-European roots.]
lint'less adj., lint'y adj.
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Word Origin & History

lint 
1375, "flax prepared for spinning," also "refuse of flax used as kindling," somehow from O.E. lin "flax" (see linen), perhaps by infl. of M.Fr. linette "grain of flax," dim. of lin "flax," from L. linum "flax, linen." Later "flax refuse used as tinder or for dressing wounds" (c.1400). Still used for "flax" in Scot. in Burns' time. Applied in Amer.Eng. to stray cotton fluff.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: lint
Pronunciation: 'lint
Function: noun
1 : a soft fleecy material used for poultices and dressings for wounds and made from linenusually by scraping
2 British : sterile cotton cloth used for dressings
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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