floss

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Dental floss.
2. n. Short or waste silk fibers, especially from the outer surface of the cocoon of a silkworm.
3. n. Soft, loosely twisted thread, as of silk or cotton, used in embroidery.
4. n. A downy or silky fibrous substance, such as corn silk or silk cotton.
5. v. To clean between (teeth) with dental floss.
6. v. To use dental floss.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A small stream of water: used as a name in the extract.
2. n. A fluid glass floating upon iron in a puddling-furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxids and earths.
3. n. Same as floss-hole.
4. n. A downy or silky substance inclosed by the husks of certain plants, as maize and milkweed.
5. n. Same as floss-silk.
6. n. The leaves of red canary-grass; also, the common rush.
7. n. The loose silk which envelops the cocoon-pod of the silkworm.

Wiktionary

1. n. a thread, used to clean the area between the teeth
2. n. silk fibres
3. n. the fibres covering a corn cob
4. n. Any thread-like material having parallel strands that are not spun or wound around each other.
5. n. UK Spun sugar or cotton candy, especially in the phrase "candy floss".
6. v. To clean the area between the teeth using floss.
7. v. African American Vernacular To show off, especially by exhibiting one’s wealth or talent.
8. n. UK A small stream of water.
9. n. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.
2. n. Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering.
3. n. A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.
4. n. engraving A small stream of water.
5. n. Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. use dental floss to clean
2. n. a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth
3. n. a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery