These are the meanings of the letters CATODONT when you unscramble them.
- Cotton (n.)
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.
- Cotton (n.)
Cloth made of cotton.
- Cotton (n.)
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To go on prosperously; to succeed.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
- Octant (n.)
An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
- Octant (n.)
One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
- Octant (n.)
The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
- Octant (n.)
The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.