1. cotton - Noun
2. cotton - Adjective
3. cotton - Verb
4. Cotton - Proper noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryEgoism is like cotton stuffed in one's ears so as not to hear the groans of others. Henryk Sienkiewicz
We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel. Golda Meir
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. Beatrix Potter
Little by little the cotton thread becomes a turban. Persian Proverb
Cotton cannot play with fire. Turkish Proverb
A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. American Proverb