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v. t.
To comb or card, as wool or flax.
n.
The seed of the flax; linseed.
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A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.
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A thin piece or fragment; specifically, one of the scales or pieces of the woody part of flax removed by the operation of breaking.
v. t.
To beat; to break, as flax or hemp.
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To rot by steeping in water; to water-ret; as, to water-rot hemp or flax.
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An implement or machine for scutching hemp, flax, or cotton; etc.; a scutch; a scutching machine.
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Like flax; flaxen.
v. t.
To ret, or rot, in water, as flax; to water-rot.
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To remove the seeds from (the stalks of flax, etc.), by means of a ripple.
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A distaff used in spinning; the staff or frame about which flax is arranged, and from which the thread is drawn in spinning.
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The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
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A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
v. t.
To open and cleanse, as cotton, flax, or wool, by means of a willow. See Willow, n., 2.
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An implement, with teeth like those of a comb, for removing the seeds and seed vessels from flax, broom corn, etc.
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The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.
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Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
v. t.
To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret.
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Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair.
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An herb (Linaria vulgaris) of the Figwort family, having narrow leaves and showy orange and yellow flowers; -- called also butter and eggs, flaxweed, and ramsted.
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