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(1):

(n.) Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.

(2):

(n.) A small stream of water.

(3):

(n.) A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.

(4):

(n.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

(5):

(n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.