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111felted — adjective made by combining fibers with a binder using heat and pressure felt is a felted cloth • Similar to: ↑unwoven * * * adjective Etymology: from past participle of felt 1. a …
112Scythian lamb — noun Asiatic tree fern having dense matted hairs sometimes used as a styptic • Syn: ↑Cibotium barometz • Hypernyms: ↑tree fern • Member Holonyms: ↑Cibotium, ↑genus Cibotium * * * noun …
113steel wool — noun a mass of woven steel fibers used as an abrasive • Syn: ↑wire wool • Hypernyms: ↑abrasive, ↑abradant, ↑abrasive material * * * noun : an abrasive material composed of long fine steel shavings and used especially for scouring and burnishing * …
114tomentose — adjective 1. covered with densely matted filaments • Pertains to noun: ↑tomentum • Topics: ↑botany, ↑phytology 2. densely covered with short matted woolly hairs a tomentose leaf • Syn: ↑ …
115daglock — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: dag (I) + lock : a dirty or matted lock of fur, hair, or wool : taglock see dag I * * * /dag lok /, n. Scot. a dangling, matted lock of wool on a sheep. [1615 25; DAG1 + LOCK2 …
116mattedness — noun ( es) Etymology: matted (I) + ness : the quality or state of being matted …
117taggy — gē, gi adjective ( er/ est) Etymology: tag (I) + y : full of or matted into tags (as of wool) * * * taggˈy adjective (of eg wool) matted into tags • • • Main Entry: ↑tag …
118taglock — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun Etymology: tag (I) + lock : a matted or tangled lock of hair or wool : daglock * * * /tag lok /, n. a matted lock of wool or hair. [1605 15; TAG1 + LOCK2] …
119afoulpostnominal foul fouled — entangled entangled adj. 1. in a confused mass. Contrasted with {untangled}. [Narrower terms: {afoul(postnominal), foul, fouled}; {knotted, snarled, snarly}; {matted}; {rootbound}; {intertwined}] Syn: tangled. [WordNet 1.5] 2. deeply involved… …
120Bird's nest — or Bird s nest Bird s nest, n. 1. The nest in which a bird lays eggs and hatches her young. [1913 Webster] 2. (Cookery) The nest of a small swallow ({Collocalia nidifica} and several allied species), of China and the neighboring countries, which …
