velvet

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
2. isim Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

   “His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet, […]”

3. isim A female chinchilla; a sow.
4. isim The drug dextromethorphan.
5. isim Money acquired by gambling.
6. fiil To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

   “Penmachno mill is situate where a stream has furrowed a deep channel, and velveted the rocks with the richest mosses […].”

7. fiil To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
8. fiil To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
9. fiil To soften; to mitigate.

   “She spoke very gently, full of compassion for the boy, velveting her reproach for me.”

10. fiil to retract.
11. sıfat Made of velvet.
12. sıfat Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

    “The fawn then rose up, and creeping gently about the room, touched the cheeks or hands of the slumbering inmates with its velvet tongue, but so softly that none were awakened.”

13. sıfat Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

    “The disintegration always took place within internal borders, whether it was velvet, as in the case of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, or bloody, like Yugoslavia's still unfinished break-up.”