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woolly (sometimes US), wooly 1. consisting of, resembling, or having the nature of wool 2. covered or clothed in wool or something resembling it 3. Botany covered with long soft whitish hairs 4. US recalling the rough and lawless period of the early West of America (esp in the phrase wild and woolly) 5. Western US and Austral an informal word for sheep How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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At times, from weakness, his head drooped and rested on the woolly pate. By this time, Master George had arrived at that pass to which even a boy can come (under uncommon circumstances, when he really could not eat another morsel), and, therefore, he was at leisure to notice the pile of woolly heads and glistening eyes which were regarding their operations hungrily from the opposite corner. They could then see the faint summer fogs in layers, woolly, level, and apparently no thicker than counterpanes, spread about the meadows in detached remnants of small extent. |
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