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To do preciate. Cotton .

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  • COTTONY
    1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
  • COTTONADE
    A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
  • COTTON BATTING
    Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
  • COTTONWOOD
    An American tree of the genus Populus or polar, having the seeds covered with abundant cottonlike hairs; esp., the P. monilifera and P. angustifolia of the Western United States.
  • COTTONARY
    Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
  • COTTONSEED MEAL
    A meal made from hulled cotton seeds after the oil has been expressed.
  • COTTONOUS
    Resembling cotton. Evelyn.
  • COTTON
    and its wool, coton printed cotton, cloth, fr. Ar. qutun, alqutun, 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
  • COTTONWEED
    See CUDWEED
  • COTTON STATE
    Alabama; -- a nickname.
  • COTTONTAIL
    The American wood rabbit ; -- also called Molly cottontail.
  • COTTON SEED; COTTONSEED
    The seed of the cotton plant.
  • COTTONSEED OIL
    A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure . and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.
  • APPRECIATE
    a price, appraise; ad + pretiare to prize, pretium price. Cf. 1. To set a price or value on; to estimate justly; to value. To appreciate the motives of their enemies. Gibbon. 3. To raise the value of; to increase the market price of; -- opposed
  • DISAPPRECIATE
    To undervalue; not to esteem. -- Dis`ap*pre`ci*a"tion, n.
  • DEPRECIATE
    To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth.
  • GUNCOTTON
    See GUN
  • MISAPPRECIATED
    Improperly appreciated.

 

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