woolfat (wulfat)

1. Same as suint. -2. A fatty substance obtained from wool and used as a basis for ointments; lanolin. woolfell (wùl'fel), n. [ The duties on wool, sheepskins, or woolfells , and leather, exported, were payable by every merchant, as well native as stranger. Black stone, Com., I. viii. In 1333 the merchants granted ten shillings on the sack and woolfells , and a pound on the last, but this also was regarded as illegal, and superseded by royal ordinance. Stubbs , Const. Hist., § 277. woolfistt (wùl'fist), n . Same as wolf's - fist . 6972 ly to the o the indulgence of idle fancies or to any foolish or fruitle pursuit. The allusion is prob a bly to the practice of gathering the tufts of wool to be found on bushes and hedges, nece itating much wandering to little purpose. His wits were a wool - gathering , as they say, and his head busied about other matters. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 189. I crost the water in my gown and slippers, To see my rents and buildings of the Bankside, And I am slipt clean out of ken, fore-god, A wool - gathering . Heywood , If you Know not me (Works, ed. 1874, I. 302). What! I think my wits are a wool - gathering to-day. Swift, Polite Conversation, iii. wool-gra (wil'grås), n. A rush-like plant, Eriophorum cyperinum cyperinum ( Scirpus Eriophorum ), common in low grounds through grounds through the eastern half of North America. It grows from 2 to 5 feet high, bearing at the summit a spreading and drooping panicle of very numerous small heads which are woolly with the rusty tortuous bristles of the flowers. I am particularly attracted by the arching and sheaflike top of the wool - gra . Thoreau , Walden, p. 331.