wool

noun

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.

fabrics and garments of such wool.

yarn made of such wool.

any of various substances used commercially as substitutes for the wool of sheep or other animals.

any of certain vegetable fibers, as cotton or flax, used as wool, especially after preparation by special process (vegetable wool)

any finely fibrous or filamentous matter suggestive of the wool of sheep: glass wool; steel wool.

any coating of short, fine hairs or hairlike processes, as on a caterpillar or a plant; pubescence.

Informal. the human hair, especially when short, thick, and crisp.

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Idioms

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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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Origin:
before 900; Middle English wolle, Old English wull(e), cognate with Dutch wol, German Wolle, Old Norse ull, Gothic wulla; akin to Latin lāna, Sanskrit ūrṇā, Welsh gwlân wool, Latin vellus fleece, Greek oúlos woolly

Related forms

wool·like, adjective

non·wool, adjective

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World English Dictionary

wool (wʊl)

—n
1.	the outer coat of sheep, yaks, etc, which consists of short curly hairs
2.	yarn spun from the coat of sheep, etc, used in weaving, knitting, etc
3.	a. cloth or a garment made from this yarn
	b. (as modifier): a wool dress
4.	any of certain fibrous materials: glass wool; steel wool
5.	informal short thick curly hair
6.	a tangled mass of soft fine hairs that occurs in certain plants
7.	dyed in the wool confirmed in one's beliefs or opinions
8.	pull the wool over someone's eyes to deceive or delude someone

[Old English wull; related to Old Frisian, Middle Dutch wulle, Old High German wolla (German Wolle), Old Norse ull, Latin lāna and vellus fleece]

'wool-like

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

wool

O.E. wull, from P.Gmc. *wulno (cf. O.N. ull, O.Fris. wolle, M.Du. wolle, Du. wol, O.H.G. wolla, Ger. wolle, Goth. wulla), from PIE *wlna (cf. Skt. urna; Avestan varena; Gk. lenos "wool;" L. lana "wool," vellus "fleece;" O.C.S. vluna, Rus. vulna, Lith. vilna "wool;" M.Ir. olann, Welsh gwlan "wool"). Woolen

(British woollen) is O.E. wullen. Fig. expression pull the wool over (someone's) eyes is recorded from 1839, Amer.Eng.

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FOLDOC

Computing Dictionary

WOOL definition

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 colas@sophia.inria.fr. Version 1 is used as the kernel language of the GWM window manager. Version 2 has an object system.
(ftp://export.lcs.mit.edu/contrib/gwm).

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Bible Dictionary

Wool definition

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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Idioms & Phrases

wool

see all wool and a yard wide; pull the wool over someone's eyes.