wools

Noun

wool (usually uncountable, plural wools)

1. (usually) The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
   • The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.2006, Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece, page 692
2. (usually) A cloth or yarn made from such hair.
   • Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets.2009 January 12, Mireya Navarro, “It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?”, in New York Times
3. (usually) Anything with a fibrous texture like that of sheep's wool.
   • The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation[…1975, Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet, page 223
4. (broadly, usually) A dingy white color inspired by the natural shade of wool.
5. (usually) A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
6. (obsolete, usually) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
   • wool of bat and tongue of dogc. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

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