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n. The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A participant in boycotting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Methods of boycotters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. See Coat. ] 1. (Eccl.) A surplice, in England and America usually one shorter and less full than the ordinary surplice and with short sleeves, or sometimes none. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A kind of very coarse woolen blanket. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Cot a cottage. ] A small house; a cot; a hut. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The term was formerly limited to a habitation for the poor, but is now applied to any small tasteful dwelling; and at places of summer resort, to any residence or lodging house of rustic architecture, irrespective of size. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottage allotment. See under Alloment. [ Eng. ] --
Cottage cheese, the thick part of clabbered milk strained, salted, and pressed into a ball. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Set or covered with cottages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even humble Harting's cottaged vale. Collins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Cottagelike; suitable for a cottage; rustic. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in a cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ LL. cotarius, cottarius, coterius. See Cot. ] A cottager; a cottier. Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Sandwich Notch the West Wind sang
Good morrow to the cotter. Whittier. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fasten with a cotter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [ See Illust. ] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A toggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family of fish including the sculpins.
Syn. -- family Cottidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. cotier. See Coterie, and cf. Cotter. ] In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm. [ Written also cottar and cotter. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. côté side, L. costa rib. ] (Her.) A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Her.) Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. cottus sculpin + -oid. ] (Zool.) Like a fish of the genus Cottus. -- n. A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A product from cotton-seed, used as lard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. coton, Sp. algodon the cotton plant and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, cotton wool. Cf. Acton, Hacqueton. ] 1. A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Cloth made of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Cotton is used as an adjective before many nouns in a sense which commonly needs no explanation; as, cotton bagging; cotton cloth; cotton goods; cotton industry; cotton mill; cotton spinning; cotton tick. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cotton cambric. See Cambric, n., 2. --
Cotton flannel, the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel. --
Cotton gin, a machine to separate the seeds from cotton, invented by Eli Whitney. --
Cotton grass (Bot.), a genus of plants (Eriphorum) of the Sedge family, having delicate capillary bristles surrounding the fruit (seedlike achenia), which elongate at maturity and resemble tufts of cotton. --
Cotton mouse (Zool.), a field mouse (Hesperomys gossypinus), injurious to cotton crops. --
Cotton plant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Gossypium, of several species, all growing in warm climates, and bearing the cotton of commerce. The common species, originally Asiatic, is Gossypium herbaceum. --
Cotton press, a building and machinery in which cotton bales are compressed into smaller bulk for shipment; a press for baling cotton. --
Cotton rose (Bot.), a genus of composite herbs (Filago), covered with a white substance resembling cotton. --
Cotton scale (Zool.), a species of bark louse (Pulvinaria innumerabilis), which does great damage to the cotton plant. --
Cotton shrub. Same as Cotton plant. --
Cotton stainer (Zool.), a species of hemipterous insect (Dysdercus suturellus), which seriously damages growing cotton by staining it; -- called also redbug. --
Cotton thistle (Bot.), the Scotch thistle. See under Thistle. --
Cotton velvet, velvet in which the warp and woof are both of cotton, and the pile is of silk; also, velvet made wholly of cotton. --
Cotton waste, the refuse of cotton mills. --
Cotton wool, cotton in its raw or woolly state. --
Cotton worm (Zool.), a lepidopterous insect (Aletia argillacea), which in the larval state does great damage to the cotton plant by eating the leaves. It also feeds on corn, etc., and hence is often called corn worm, and Southern army worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It cottons well; it can not choose but bear
A pretty nap. Family of Love. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would? Lyly. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion? Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. cottonade. ] A somewhat stout and thick fabric of cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Cottonary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. venomous semiaquatic snake (Agkistrodon piscivorus) of swamps in southern U.S.; -- called also water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, and cottonmouth water moccasin. It grows to a length of about 4 feet. The name refers to the whiteness of the lips and inside of the mouth.
Syn. -- water moccasin, cottonmouth moccasin, Agkistrodon piscivorus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Resembling cotton. [ R. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , usually collectively, } n. The seed of the cotton plant. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Alabama; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) See Cudweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a type of grunt (Haemulon melanurum) of warm Atlantic waters.
Syn. -- Haemulon melanurum. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) An American tree of the genus Populus or poplar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the Populus monilifera and Populus angustifolia of the Western United States. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A trammel, or hook to support a pot over a fire. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

See under Gun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Tubular large noodles that are usually stuffed with mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce; -- a type of Italian pasta; also a dish of such noodles thus prepared. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

{ } n. [ Through French fr. Pr. mascot a little sorcerer or magician, mascotto witchcraft, sorcery. ] 1. A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Anything that brings good luck; especially, an animal kept by a group, as a sports team, to serve as a symbol and to bring luck. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. [ 1913 Webster ]

That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Scot a Scotchman: cf. AS. Scyttisc, and E. Scotch, a., Scots, a. ] Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Zool.) Same as Scotch terrier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]