Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Molochina

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MOLOCH'INA, sc. vestis (μολόχινη). A garment made of cloth woven from the fibrous parts of the bark of the hibiscus (μολόχη), a species of mallow, which is still employed in India for making cordage. The word is also written mollicina, molicina, and molicinia, all evident varieties from the Greek original. Isidor. Orig. xix. 22. 12. Novius ap. Non. p. 54. Caecil. Ib. p. 548. Yates, Textrin. Antiq. pp. 304 — 309.