Wool Definition–noun | 1. | the fine, soft, curly hair that forms the fleece of sheep and certain other animals, characterized by minute, overlapping surface scales that give it its felting property. | | 2. | fabrics and garments of such wool. | | 3. | yarn made of such wool. | | 4. | any of various substances used commercially as substitutes for the wool of sheep or other animals. | | 5. | any of certain vegetable fibers, as cotton or flax, used as wool, esp. after preparation by special process (vegetable wool). | | 6. | any finely fibrous or filamentous matter suggestive of the wool of sheep: glass wool; steel wool. | | 7. | any coating of short, fine hairs or hairlike processes, as on a caterpillar or a plant; pubescence. | | 8. | Informal. the human hair, esp. when short, thick, and crisp. | —Idioms | 9. | all wool and a yard wide, genu
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ine; excellent; sincere: He was a real friend, all wool and a yard wide. | | 10. | dyed in the wool, inveterate; confirmed: a dyed in the wool sinner. | | 11. | pull the wool over someone's eyes, to deceive or delude someone: The boy thought that by hiding the broken dish he could pull the wool over his mother's eyes. | |
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