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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) is a soft,
fluffy staple fiber that
grows in a boll, or
protective case,
around the
seeds of the
cotton plants of the genus...
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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...
- The
Cotton Bowl
classic (also
known as the
Cotton Bowl) is an
American college football bowl game pla****
annually in the Dallas–Fort
Worth metroplex since...
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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...
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Cotton swabs (American English) or
cotton buds (British English) are wads of
cotton wrapped around a
short rod made of wood,
rolled paper, or plastic...
- A
cotton gin—meaning "
cotton engine"—is a
machine that
quickly and
easily separates cotton fibers from
their seeds,
enabling much
greater productivity...
- Will
Cotton (born 1965 in Melrose, M****achusetts, U.S.) is an
American painter. His work
primarily features landscapes composed of sweets,
often inhabited...
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Bryce Jiron Cotton (born
August 11, 1992) is an
American professional basketball player for the
Perth Wildcats of the
National Basketball League (NBL)...
- The
Cotton Club was a 20th-century
nightclub in New York City. It was
located on 142nd
Street and
Lenox Avenue from 1923 to 1936, then
briefly in the midtown...
