Linen

1. n. Underclothing, esp. the shirt, as being, in former times, chiefly made of linen.
2. n. Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
3. n. Resembling linen cloth; white; pale.
4. n. Thread or cloth made of flax or (rarely) of hemp; — used in a general sense to include cambric, shirting, sheeting, towels, tablecloths, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.