Gossypium (gosipium)

[NL., showy axillary lowers surrounded by a large cordate 3 bracts, and a 3- to 5-celled capsule, the seeds densely covered by long woolly hairs. Four species are generally recognized, though many others have been proposed. The cultivated species are natives of Asia and Africa, where they have been planted from very early times, and many varieties have been produced. All the cotton manufac is also cultivated in some tropical regions. The fourth species, G. Davidson i i, is native upon the western coast of Mexico, and is remarkable in having its seeds wholly naked; is known only in a wild state. See cotton1 cotton-plant. gostt, gostlyt, etc. The more correct but obsolete spellings of ghost, ghostly, etc. Chaucer. gosudar, n. See hospodar. go-summert (gō'sum"ér), n. [Cf. go-harvest, and see go amer.] The latter end of summer; the last warm and fine weather. [Scotch.] The go - summer was matchle fair in Murray, without winds, wet, or any storm. Spalding, Hist. Troubles in Scotland, I. 34. got (got). Preterit of get1. got, gotten (got, got'n). Past participles of get1. got a (gō'tä), n. [E. Ind.] Lace: its name in the north of India, where its manufacture is but recent. ( a ) A gold or silver lace, the variety being indicated by some qualifying word. (6) A lace made of white cotton thread.