What is the meaning of CALICO. Phrases containing CALICO
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Prostitute.
A girl or a woman.
A paint horse.
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A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
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A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.
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One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.
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A kind of cement made of flour and water, starch and water, or the like, -- used for uniting paper or other substances, as in bookbinding, etc., -- also used in calico printing as a vehicle for mordant or color.
v. i.
To bear without injury the operation of being washed; as, some calicoes do not wash.
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To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.
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Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.
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The ordinary outer dress of a woman; as, a calico or silk gown.
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A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers.
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The calico bass.
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Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
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An hemipterous insect (Murgantia histrionica) which injures the cabbage and other garden plants; -- called also calico bug and harlequin cabbage bug.
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That which is repeated; as, the repeat of a pattern; that is, the repetition of the engraved figure on a roller by which an impression is produced (as in calico printing, etc.).
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The calico bass.
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Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.
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A genus of North American shrubs with poisonous evergreen foliage and corymbs of showy flowers. Called also mountain laurel, ivy bush, lamb kill, calico bush, etc.
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A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.
v. t.
To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
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