cotton rush

Eriophorum. [COTTON-GRASS.] cotton-sedge, s. The same as COTTON-RUSH (q. v.). (Bentham.) cotton-seed, s. The seed of the cotton-plant. (1) Cotton-seed cake : The solid portion of cottonseed, from which the oil has been expre ed. It forms a valuable food for cattle. (2) Cotton-seed cleaner : A machine for tearing the remaining fiber from the cotton-seed, or one which so far compacts the fiber upon the seed that the latter will roll upon itself without making a mat, and so become fitted to be sown by an ordinary machine. ( Knight . ) (3) Cotton-seed huller : A machine by which the hull of the cotton-seed is rasped off and sifted from the farinaceous and oily matters, which are utilized for their oil and the refuse for manure. ( Knight .) (4) Cotton-seed mill : A mill for grinding the seed of cotton, either for manure or for obtaining from the meal the oil, either by pre ure or the more usual mode of treatment by bisulphide of carbon (Sims' proce ) or hydrocarbon. ( Knight .) "It cottons well: it cannot choose but bear A pretty nap." Family of Love. cot'-ton (2) (pron. cotn), *cotten, v. i. [Wel. cytuno to agree, to consent. ( Skeat .)) To enter into a state of close intimacy, to unite or a ociate closely with; to agree, to coincide. "That first with midst, and middst with laste Maye cotten and agree." Drant: Horace (1567), sig. A. v. back. cot'-ton-ade (cotton as cotn), s. [Eng. cotton ; -ade .] Fabric: A stout thick fabric made of cotton; cotton check. *cot-ton-ar-ý (cotton as cotn), a. [Eng. cotton; -ary.] Pertaining to or made of cotton. Errors. "Cotton ary and woolly pillows." - Browne: Vulgar