Woolen
(Wool"en), n. [Written also woollen.] Cloth made of wool; woollen goods.
Woolenet
(Wool`en*et") n. A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet, woolenette, and woollenette.]
Woolert
(Woo"lert) n. (Zoöl.) The barn owl. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also oolert, and owlerd.]
Woolfell
(Wool"fell`) n. [Wool + fell a skin.] A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not
been sheared or pulled. [Written also woolfel.]
Woolgathering
(Wool"gath`er*ing) a. Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination; roaming
upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.
Woolgathering
(Wool"gath`er*ing), n. Indulgence in idle imagination; a foolish or useless pursuit or design.
His wits were a woolgathering, as they say.
Burton. Woolgrower
(Wool"grow`er) n. One who raises sheep for the production of wool. — Wool"grow`ing, n.
Wool-hall
(Wool"-hall`) n. A trade market in the woolen districts. [Eng.]
Woolhead
(Wool"head`) n. (Zoöl.) The buffel duck.
Woolliness
(Wool"li*ness) n. The quality or state of being woolly.
Woolly
(Wool"ly), a.
1. Consisting of wool; as, a woolly covering; a woolly fleece.
2. Resembling wool; of the nature of wool. "My fleece of woolly hair." Shak.
3. Clothed with wool. "Woolly breeders." Shak.
4. (Bot.) Clothed with a fine, curly pubescence resembling wool.
Woolly bear (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of several species of bombycid moths. The most common species
in the United States are the salt-marsh caterpillar the black and red woolly bear, or larva of the Isabella
moth (see Illust., under Isabella Moth), and the yellow woolly bear, or larva of the American ermine
moth — Woolly butt (Bot.), an Australian tree (Eucalyptus longifolia), so named because of its fibrous
bark. — Woolly louse (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Schizoneura, or Erisoma, lanigera) which is often very
injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine
wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, the other the branches. See Illust.
under Blight. — Woolly macaco (Zoöl.), the mongoose lemur. — Woolly maki (Zoöl.), a long-tailed
lemur (Indris laniger) native of Madagascar, having fur somewhat like wool; — called also avahi, and
woolly lemur. — Woolly monkey (Zoöl.), any South American monkey of the genus Lagothrix, as
the caparro. — Woolly rhinoceros (Paleon.), an extinct rhinoceros (Rhinoceros tichorhinus) which
inhabited the arctic regions, and was covered with a dense coat of woolly hair. It has been found frozen
in the ice of Siberia, with the flesh and hair well preserved.
Woolly-head
(Wool"ly-head`) n. A negro. [Low]
Woolman
(Wool"man) n.; pl. Woolmen One who deals in wool.
Woolpack
(Wool"pack`) n. A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.
Woolsack
(Wool"sack`) n. A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England
in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
