Word Meanings - SAXONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A kind of glossy woolen cloth formerly much used. 2. Saxony yarn, or flannel made of it or similar yarn.

Related words: (words related to SAXONY)

• WOOLEN
  1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
• SAXONY YARN
  A fine grade of woolen yarn twisted somewhat harder and smoother than zephyr yarn.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• CLOTHESHORSE
  A frame to hang clothes on.
• FLANNELED
  Covered or wrapped in flannel.
• CLOTHIER
  1. One who makes cloths; one who dresses or fulls cloth. Hayward. 2. One who sells cloth or clothes, or who makes and sells clothes.
• GLOSSY
  1. Smooth and shining; reflecting luster from a smooth surface; highly polished; lustrous; as, glossy silk; a glossy surface. 2. Smooth; specious; plausible; as, glossy deceit.
• CLOTHING
  See CARD (more info) 1. Garments in general; clothes; dress; raiment; covering. From others he shall stand in need of nothing, Yet on his brothers shall depend for clothing. Milton. As for me, . . . my clothing
• SIMILARLY
  In a similar manner.
• CLOTHESPIN
  A forked piece of wood, or a small spring clamp, used for fastening clothes on a line.
• CLOTHES
  1. Covering for the human body; dress; vestments; vesture; -- a general term for whatever covering is worn, or is made to be worn, for decency or comfort. She . . . speaks well, and has excellent good clothes. Shak. If I may touch but his clothes,
• FLANNEL
  A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture. Shak. Adam's flannel. See under Adam. -- Canton flannel, Cotton flannel. See Cotton flannel, under Cotton. (more info) mattress; fr. W. gwlanen flannel, fr. gwlan wool; prob. akin to E.
• CLOTHRED
  Clottered. Chaucer.
• SIMILARITY
  The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
• CLOTHESPRESS
  A receptacle for clothes.
• CLOTH
  cloth, garment; akin to D. kleed, Icel. klæ'ebi, Dan. klæde, cloth, 1. A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adapted to be made into garments;
• SIMILAR
  1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. 2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. 3. Homogenous; uniform. Boyle. Similar figures , figures which differ from
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• CANTON FLANNEL
  See FLANNEL
• DISSIMILARLY
  In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.
• UNCLOTHED
  Divested or stripped of clothing. Byron. 2. Etym: (more info) 1. Etym:
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• WATER FLANNEL
  A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga .
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• GUNNY; GUNNY CLOTH
  A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for
• HAIRCLOTH
  Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.