flannel : Idioms & Phrases

• (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus).

Webster 1913

• noun a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side
  Canton flannel.
  

WordNet

Can"ton flan"nel

Definitions

1. See Cotton flannel.

Webster 1913

• . See Cotton flannel, under Cotton.

Webster 1913

• noun a stout cotton fabric with nap on only one side
  Canton flannel.
  

WordNet

• the manufactures' name for a heavy cotton fabric, twilled, and with a long plush nap. In England it is called swan's-down cotton, or Canton flannel.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several handsome evergreen shrubs of California and northern Mexico having downy lobed leaves and showy yellow flowers
  California beauty; flannelbush.
  

WordNet

• noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  flapjack; hot cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
  

WordNet

• noun any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers
  mullein; velvet plant.
  

WordNet

• noun tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches
  common mullein; woolly mullein; Aaron's rod; great mullein; torch; Verbascum thapsus.
  

WordNet

• noun a flat cake of thin batter fried on both sides on a griddle
  flapjack; hot cake; hotcake; griddlecake; flapcake; pancake; battercake; flannel cake.
  

WordNet

• a light flannel, highly finished. Knight.

Webster 1913

• a textile material, manufactured in Germany from pine-needle wool, a down or fiber obtained from the leaves of the Pinus sylvestris.

Webster 1913

Wa"ter flan"nel

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

Webster 1913

• a fine kind of flannel made from the fleece of the flocks of the Welsh mountains, and largely manufactured by hand.

Webster 1913