Vocabulary : Cotter to Cotton State

Cotter : Alt. of Cottar ;; A piece of wood or metal, commonly wedge-shaped, used for fastening together parts of a machine or structure. It is driven into an opening through one or all of the parts. [See Illust.] In the United States a cotter is commonly called a key. ;; A toggle. ;; To fasten with a cotter.
Cottier : In Great Britain and Ireland, a person who hires a small cottage, with or without a plot of land. Cottiers commonly aid in the work of the landlord's farm.
Cottise : A diminutive of the bendlet, containing one half its area or one quarter the area of the bend. When a single cottise is used alone it is often called a cost. See also Couple-close.
Cottised : Set between two cottises, -- said of a bend; or between two barrulets, -- said of a bar or fess.
Cottoid : Like a fish of the genus Cottus. ;; A fish belonging to, or resembling, the genus Cottus. See Sculpin.

Cottolene : A product from cotton-seed, used as lard.
Cotton : A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half. ;; The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below. ;; Cloth made of cotton. ;; To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does. ;; To go on prosperously; to succeed. ;; To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with. ;; To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
Cotton batting : Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.
Cotton seed : Alt. of Cottonseed
Cotton State : Alabama; -- a nickname.

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