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Cotton
Cotton Cot"ton, v. i.
1. To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. [Obs.]
It cottons well; it can not choose but bear A pretty
nap. --Family of
Love.
2. To go on prosperously; to succeed. [Obs.]
New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I
would? --Lyly.
3. To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed
by with. [Colloq.]
A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off,
in which case it will not be easy to cotton with
another. --Swift.
Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in
with his beggarly companion? --Sir W.
Scott.
4. To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used
with to. [Slang]
Meaning of Cotton from wikipedia
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Cotton (from
Arabic qutn),
first recorded in
ancient India, is a soft,
fluffy staple fiber that
grows in a boll, or
protective case,
around the
seeds of...
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Thomas Bryant Cotton (born May 13, 1977) is an
American politician and Army
veteran serving since 2015 as the
junior United States senator from Arkansas...
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Thomas "Rocky"
Cotton is a
fictional character from the BBC soap
opera EastEnders, pla**** by
Brian Conley. He was
introduced under the
alias Terry Cant...
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Cotton paper, also
known as rag
paper or rag
stock paper, is made
using cotton linters (fine
fibers which stick to the
cotton seeds after processing)...
- the
Cotton tensor on a (pseudo)-Riemannian
manifold of
dimension n is a third-order
tensor concomitant of the metric. The
vanishing of the
Cotton tensor...
- The
Cotton effect in physics, is the
characteristic change in
optical rotatory dispersion and/or
circular dichroism in the
vicinity of an
absorption band...
- A
Cotton Gin—meaning "
Cotton engine"—is a
machine that
quickly and
easily separates cotton fibers from
their seeds,
enabling much
greater productivity...
- "
Cotton-E**** Joe" (also
known as "
Cotton-Eye Joe") (Roud 942) is a
traditional American country folk song po****r at
various times throughout the United...
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Fearne Cotton (born 3
September 1981) is an
English broadcaster and author. She
began her
career in the late 1990s as a children’s
television presenter...
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Cotton candy, also
known as
candy floss (candyfloss) and
fairy floss, is a spun
sugar confection that
resembles cotton. It is made by
heating and liquefying...
