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Terras of art, if not well defined, will leave the 

 reader, ftudent, or hiflorian, in the dark, or at leaft 

 liable to err. 



Wool. A uniform hair, protruded through the 

 fkin of an animal from a root, and which does not 

 fall off without fome violence or difeafe in the ani- 

 mal : the hair of the head of a human creature : 

 the mane and tail of horfes and black cattle, and it 

 feems to me of fome fpecies of dogs : mod commonly 

 applied to ftieep of various countries. 



Fur, is an hair of a capillary nature, and ufually 

 fuch creatures have two coats, a fummer and a win- 

 ter; and therefore they are fuUeft of fur in the 

 winter, and as the fpring advances it drops off by 

 little and little, not to leave the animal quite bare; 

 as in horfes, cows, pigs, dogs, and it feems to me 

 mofl: creatures which are termed wild. 



Sometimes thefe are mixed, which is an inconceiv- 

 able damage to the medley cloths, and feems to call 

 for a remedy if poffible. 



Fleece. The wool lliorn off one fheep, and wound 

 up together by a band twifted out of fome parts of it. 



Top. In the fairs at Hereford, See. the fame 

 thing, though fometimes through avarice the fleece 

 is broke into feveral parts, and every one wound up 

 is called a top, and the feller can fuit himfelf as to 

 the fum of the fcale: in trinded wool, which is 

 wound up as clofe as poffible in the form of fkittle- 

 pins, each is called a top, and what is bound up in 



rind 



