Word Meanings - DISPRIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.
• COTTONARY
  Relating to, or composed of, cotton; cottony. Cottomary and woolly pillows. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• 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.