A loosely woven cotton gauze, originally used to wrap cheese, but now used for various culinary tasks and by farmers to shade crops and keep birds off.

(Britain) The British cabinet minister, responsible for law and order, who is head of the Home Office.

(astronomy) relating to the seismic activity of a star

(uncountable) A chemical element (symbol Ir) with an atomic number of 77: a very hard, brittle, silvery-white transition metal of the platinum group. / (countable) A single atom of this element.