*wool*

adj. 1. thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through. [ PJC ]

2. dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.
Syn. -- yarn-dyed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Made of linen and wool; hence, of different and unsuitable parts; mean. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Cloth made of linen and wool, mixed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Jargon. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. wolle, wulle, AS. wull; akin to D. wol, OHG. wolla, G. wolle, Icel. & Sw. ull, Dan. uld, Goth, wulla, Lith. vilna, Russ. volna, L. vellus, Skr. ūr&nsdot_;ā wool, v&rsdot_; to cover. √146, 287. Cf. Flannel, Velvet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The soft and curled, or crisped, species of hair which grows on sheep and some other animals, and which in fineness sometimes approaches to fur; -- chiefly applied to the fleecy coat of the sheep, which constitutes a most essential material of clothing in all cold and temperate climates. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Wool consists essentially of keratin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wool of bat and tongue of dog. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) A sort of pubescence, or a clothing of dense, curling hairs on the surface of certain plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dead pulled wool, wool pulled from a carcass. --
Mineral wool. See under Mineral. --
Philosopher's wool. (Chem.) See Zinc oxide, under Zinc. --
Pulled wool, wool pulled from a pelt, or undressed hide. --
Slag wool. Same as Mineral wool, under Mineral. --
Wool ball, a ball or mass of wool. --
Wool burler, one who removes little burs, knots, or extraneous matter, from wool, or the surface of woolen cloth. --
Wool comber. (a) One whose occupation is to comb wool. (b) A machine for combing wool. --
Wool grass (Bot.), a kind of bulrush (Scirpus Eriophorum) with numerous clustered woolly spikes. --
Wool scribbler. See Woolen scribbler, under Woolen, a. --
Wool sorter's disease (Med.), a disease, resembling malignant pustule, occurring among those who handle the wool of goats and sheep. --
Wool staple, a city or town where wool used to be brought to the king's staple for sale. [ Eng. ] --
Wool stapler. (a) One who deals in wool. (b) One who sorts wool according to its staple, or its adaptation to different manufacturing purposes. --
Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Woolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Woolding. ] [ D. woelen, bewoelen; akin to G. wuhlen, bewuhlen. √146. ] (Naut.) To wind, or wrap; especially, to wind a rope round, as a mast or yard made of two or more pieces, at the place where it has been fished or scarfed, in order to strengthen it. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. 1. (Naut.) A stick used to tighten the rope in woolding. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Rope Making) One of the handles of the top, formed by a wooden pin passing through it. See 1st Top, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) (a) The act of winding or wrapping anything with a rope, as a mast. (b) A rope used for binding masts and spars. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dyed before being made into cloth, in distinction from piece-dyed; ingrain. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) wool; as, a fine-wooled sheep. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. wollen; cf. AS. wyllen. See Wool. ] [ Written also woollen. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent layers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Written also woollen. ] Cloth made of wool; woollen goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin, light fabric of wool. [ Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The barn owl. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ Written also oolert, and owlerd. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Wool + fell a skin. ] A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled. [ Written also woolfel. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wits were a woolgathering, as they say. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who raises sheep for the production of wool. -- Wool"grow`ing, n. [1913 Webster]

n. A trade market in the woolen districts. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The buffel duck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being woolly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. “My fleece of woolly hair.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Clothed with wool. “Woolly breeders.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woolly bear (Zool.), the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar (see under Salt), the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine moth (Spilosoma Virginica). --
Woolly butt (Bot.), an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous bark. --
Woolly louse (Zool.), a plant louse (Schizoneura lanigera syn Erisoma lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust. under Blight. --
Woolly macaco (Zool.), the mongoose lemur. --
Woolly maki (Zool.), a long-tailed lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; -- called also avahi, and woolly lemur. --
Woolly monkey (Zool.), any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as the caparro. --
Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A negro. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Woolmen One who deals in wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Wool. ] Linsey-woolsey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A heavy wooden hammer for milling cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Wool + -ward. ] In wool; with woolen raiment next the skin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]