cotton or linen fabric with the nap raised on one side; used to dress wounds
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Lint \Lint\ (l[i^]nt), n. [AS. l[=i]net flax, hemp, fr. l[=i]n flax; or, perh. borrowed fr. L. linteum a linen cloth, linen, from linteus linen, a., fr. linum flax, lint. See {Linen}.] 1. Flax.
2. Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
{Lint doctor} (Calico-printing Mach.), a scraper to remove lint from a printing cylinder.
Gross lint revenues were worth only Dollars 52m in 1991-1992 and Dollars 43m last year, leaving cotton as the country's sixth main source of foreign exchange after rice.
Keep the dryer's lint screen clean.
A young housewife turns her basement into a repository for everything from used Kitty Litter to carpet lint, for reasons she's at a loss to explain.
Once this has been accomplished, we reach into our pockets, bring out a mix of bills, coins and lint from 42 na tions and let him take what he wants right out of our palms.