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Floss   /flɑs/   Listen
noun
Floss  n.  
1.
(Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
2.
Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
3.
A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.
Floss silk, silk that has been twisted, and which retains its loose and downy character. It is much used in embroidery. Called also floxed silk.
Floss thread, a kind of soft flaxen yarn or thread, used for embroidery; called also linen floss, and floss yarn.


Floss  n.  
1.
A small stream of water. (Eng.)
2.
Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.
Floss hole.
(a)
A hole at the back of a puddling furnace, at which the slags pass out.
(b)
The tap hole of a melting furnace.





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"Floss" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Red floss Mountain's" wrapped in gloom, And "Silas Pettibone's shef-doover" Has long since vanished from the room With "Casey" ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... she combed her beautiful hair in the morning with an old broken comb, and it flowed about her like floss silk, she experienced a moment of ...
— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo
... detonation was deafening; it rattled the windows, it seemed to bulge the very walls. Blake felt a heavy blow which drove the floss-filled pillows against his body with the force of a giant hammer, it tore them from his grip, it crushed the breath from his lungs and spun him half around. Seeing that he did not fall, Maruffi cocked and fired a second ...
— The Net • Rex Beach
... his coat. His beard had been prepared in the holy land, and was patriarchal. He never shaved, and rarely trimmed it. It was glossy, soft, clean, and altogether not unprepossessing. It was such that ladies might desire to reel it off and work it into their patterns in lieu of floss silk. His complexion was fair and almost pink, he was small in height, and slender in limb, but well-made, and his voice was of particular sweetness.manner and dress he was equally remarkable. He had none of the mauvaise honte ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... said presently; "do you remember in The Mill on the Floss, when Maggie Tulliver closed the golden gates of childhood behind her? I can almost see them swing; almost hear them clang; and I can't tell whether I ...
— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin


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