Flax is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FLAX in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the fibres of the plant linum
• a blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed (linseed) and for textile fibre made from its stalks.
• textile fibre obtained from the flax plant
• used in names of other plants of the flax family (e.g. purging flax) or plants that yield similar fibre (e.g. false flax).
• plant grown for its stem fibres and seeds
• A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.
• The skin or fibrous part of the flax plant, when broken and cleaned by hatcheling or combing.
• fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric
• plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an annual herb

Words related to FLAX

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Words that contain FLAX

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How to use FLAX in a sentence

• Thou shalt not wear a garment made of wool and flax together.
• Break the nettles into pieces with your hands and feet, and they will become flax.
• A father was fined if his daughter did not spin as much flax or wool as the selectmen required of her.
• Flax can be raised with very moderate expense up to the time of harvest.
• An acre of ripened flax yields from ten to twenty bushels of seed, and each bushel affords nearly or quite two gallons of linseed-oil.
• On April the 14th, our brig being stored with planks, flax, and potatoes, and ready for sea, I went on board of her.
• The country is fertile and well cultivated, growing wheat, maize, rice, barley and flax, in its eastern districts.
• The climate of Kentucky is favourable to the growth of hemp, flax, tobacco, and all kinds of grain.
• They would come when folks were asleep, and tidy their kitchen for them, or chop their wood, and spin their flax.
• Such a food, for instance, is obtained from growing wheat and oats together, and if some flax is grown in the mixture it will be further improved.
• Flax could see it brighter than all the brightness of the rainbow.
• The town carries on an extensive trade in grain, flax, hemp, wood, tar and leather.
• One chief objection to flax as a nurse crop is that it is commonly sown late.
• And since it tends to lessen weed growth through smothering, it may with advantage be followed by crops for which a clean seed bed is specially advantageous, as flax.
• This water becomes poisonous, so that Henry the Eighth prohibited the washing of flax in any running stream.
• The old mother did not allow the girls to grow up in idleness, but kept them hard at work from morning to night spinning golden flax into thread.
• King also lamented their ignorance of the proper mode of preparing the flax plant, which rendered it useless to them.
• The New Zealanders mentioned in the preceding account of the Flax Manufactory at Norfolk Island, remained, as has been already shown, six months at that settlement.
• Strange weapons, ornaments, and cloaks, were offered by the savages, as well as food and the dressed fibre of the native flax.
• A musket and a little powder and lead were worth a ton of scraped flax.
• In exchange for fire-arms and gunpowder the captain had filled his brig with flax and pigs.
• One day while he sat in his house, he took flax and yarn, and with it made meshes like those of a net, a fire burning in front of him.
• The Russia company brought home furs and flax, steel, iron, ropes, and masts.

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