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e.Organdie. Grogram.Organzine. Gros.Orleans-cloth. Gunny.Osnaburg. Hair-cloth.Pack-cloth. Padesoy.Shag. Palampoor.Shalli. Panne.Shalloon. Paper-muslin.Sheeting. Paramatta-cloth.Shirred goods. Pennistone.Shirting. Percale.Shoddy. Petersham.Shot-silk. Pile.Silesia. Pillow.Silk. Pilot-cloth.Silk-shag. Pique.Sof. Piquee.Soocey. Plaid.Spinel. Plain-back.Stripe. Platilla.Stuff. Plonket.Swansdown. Plumeta.Swiss-muslin. Plush.Tabaret. Poldway.Tabby. Polemit.Taffety. Polimid throughout. 2. (Fabric.) A peculiar finish given to certain, kinds of cloth. See next article. Friz′zing-ma-chine′. 1. (Fabric.) A machine on which the nap of woolen cloth is formed into a number of little prominences or tufts. Petersham cloth, so called, is thus formed. The machine consists of three parts, — the frizzer, the frizzing-table, the drawing-beam. The cloth is drawn by the beam between the two former portions, which are respectively about ten feet long, fifteen <