A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering. He from thick films shall purge the visual ray. Pope.
A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.
To cover with a thin skin or pellicle. It will but skin and film the ulcerous place. Shak.
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