velvet

A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.

Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.

A female chinchilla; a sow.

The drug dextromethorphan.

Money acquired by gambling.

To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.

To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.

To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.

To soften; to mitigate.

(of a cat's claws) to retract.

Made of velvet.

Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.

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