England, and joined him; when they at once started Cotton rose

( Bot.) See FILAGO. busine at the village of Slatersville in the same State, Cotton Ridge, in Mi ., a for mer P. O. of Itawamba co. and gave an extraordinary impetus to the manufacture, Cotton Seed Oil. See COTTON SEED. which, by 1816, had increased to the consumption of Cotton-shrub, n. Same as cotton-plant. See COTTON. about 100,000 bales of the raw article, turning out Cotton-spinner, n. One engaged in the spinning 81,000,000 yards of cloth, employing 100,000 operatives, and engaging a working capital of $40,000,000. The invention of the power-loom, in England, still, however, checked the progre of the American manufacture, by enabling the former country to import into the U. States of cotton by machinery, into textile fabrics. Cotton-spinning, n. (Manf.) Art of spinning cotton by machinery. See COTTON-MANUFACTURE, and SPINNING. Cot'ton-thistle, n. ( Bot .) See ONOPORDUM.