Huckaback: alternatives and connections

An optical toy for producing amusing figures or pictures by means of two revolving disks, on one of which distorted figures are painte…

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanches before it is woven.

A coarse cloth of linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to…

A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk.

A representation of the crucifixion, consisting of three crosses with the figures of Christ and the thieves, often as large as life, a…

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures of various colors; -- also called cotton ca…

Straight threads obtained by unraveling old linen cloth; -- used for surgical dressings.

A fabric made of fibrous material (or sometimes of wire, as in wire cloth); commonly, a woven fabric of cotton, woolen, or linen, adap…

A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

a fabric (usually cotton or linen) with a distinctive woven pattern of small repeated figures

A coarse linen cloth made in the north of England and in Scotland, now nearly replaced by calico.

Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

An optical toy; a card on which confused or imperfect figures are drawn, but which form to the eye regular figures when the card is ra…