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Cotton-wool, cotton wool. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cotton-wool, cotton wool 1.  Cotton, in its raw and woolly state, as gathered from the bolls of the plant; raw cotton.

1 1600.  Hakluyt, Voy. (1810), III. 544. In this Countrey is great store of Cotten wooll, whereof the Indians make fine linnen cloth.

2 1653.  H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., lv. § 1. 215. They apparel themselves with Stuffs made of Silk and Cotten-wool.

3 1704.  Lond. Gaz., No. 3983/4. The Cargo … consisting of … Cotton yarn, Cotton-wooll, &c.

4 1813.  Vansittart, in Examiner, 4 April, 217/2. The Import of Cotton Wool from the United States.

5 1868.  Rogers, Pol. Econ., ii. (1876), 11. In a country like India the same person grows, gathers, cleanses and spins the cotton-wool, and afterwards weaves it into cloth.

6   † b.  pl. Obs.

7 1638.  L. Roberts, Merch. Map Commerce, 118. The commodities that are found here … are cotton woolls … wax, cotton and grogram yarne.

8   2.  The same substance as prepared for wadding, quilting, packing fragile articles, etc.

9 1870.  Emerson, Soc. & Solit., iv. 65. I know no remedy against it but cotton-wool, or the wax which Ulysses stuffed into the ears of his sailors.

10 1875.  T. W. Higginson, Hist. U. S., x. 79. A coat thickly quilted with cotton wool.

11 1884.  W. H. Rideing, in Harper’s Mag., Oct., 522/2. They are carded, and boxed in cotton-wool.

12   b.  (fig.) To be or live in cotton-wool.

13 1869.  Miss Mulock, Woman’s Kingd., II. 45. Letty would never be happy unless she lived in clover and cotton-wool.

14 1890.  J. Payn, Burnt Million, II. xxix. 230. To be in cotton-wool is a phrase significant of superfluous comfort.

15   3.  attrib. and Comb.

16 1860.  Sat. Rev., IX. 65/2. An increase of competition in the cotton-wool market.

17 1870.  Tyndall, Fragm. Sc., xi. (1871), 334. A cotton-wool respirator.

18   Hence Cotton-wool v. (nonce-wd.), to stuff or close (the ears) with cotton-wool.

19 1857.  Motley, Corr., 3 May. Cotton wooling your ears absolutely to all hand-clapping and greasy mob applause.

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