Word Meanings - NASCAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.

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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.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• COTTONADE
  A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
• COTTON BATTING
  Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
• PESSARY
  An instrument or device to be introduced into and worn in the vagina, to support the uterus, or remedy a malposition. A medicinal substance in the form of a bolus or mass, designed for introduction into the vagina; a vaginal suppository.
• 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
• MEDICATION
  The act or process of medicating.
• 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.
• MEDICATE
  1. To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." Arbuthnot. 2. To treat with medicine.
• MEDICATIVE
  Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
• 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.
• GUNCOTTON
  See GUN