hosiery

(hd’zhér-i), x. [ + -i-ery: see hosier and-ery.] 1. Specifically, hose of all kinds for the foot and leg; stockings and socks collectively; by extension, the whole cla of goods in which a hosier deals; the stock of a hosier.—2. A factory where stockings, undergarments, ete., are woven by machinery.—38. The busine of a hosier.—Balbriggan hosiery, a fine cotton hosiery, of which the threads are unusually hard, having very little nap or woolly surface: so called from the town of Balbriggan in the county of Dublin, Ireland, where it is made.