Cotton-wool used as padding or stuffing for clothes, etc. Obsolete exc. Historical.

Cotton fibre dressed for stuffing or padding garments; cotton-wool, cotton-wadding.

A quantity of wool, cotton, etc., which has been carded.

The same substance as prepared for wadding, quilting, packing fragile articles, etc.

guncotton.

concrete. Cotton fibre prepared in sheets for quilts or bed-covers; cf. bat, n.2 13.

The material which forms the bulk of the fibres in the cotton boll (cf. linter, n.1 b), which is separated from the cotton seeds by ginning and…

Material consisting of short fibres removed from cotton seed. Cf. linter, n.1 b.

A viscid, orange or brown solution of sodium cellulose xanthate obtained by treating cellulose successively with sodium hydroxide and carbon…

In plural. A product composed of the short downy hairs or ‘fuzz’ adhering to the cotton seeds (from which it is removed by the linter), which is…