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Byssuslike; consisting of fine fibers or threads, as some very delicate filamentous algæ.

A cloth of exceedingly fine texture, used by the ancients. It is disputed whether it was of cotton, linen, or silk. [Written also byss and byssin.]

The finest kind of silk received from India.

To confine in, or as in, a cabin. I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears. Shak.

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

rk, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals. In his cage, like parrot fine and gay. Cowper.

Confined in, or as in, a cage; like a cage or prison. "The caged cloister." Shak.

A bird confined in a cage; esp. a young bird. [Poetic] Tennyson.

Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light- colored leather used in bookbinding; as, to bind books in calf.

een subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.

A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak.

A cotton stuff showing a fine cord on one side and a satiny surface on the other.

A species of grouse (Tetrao uragallus) of large size and fine flavor, found in northern Europe and formerly in Scotland; -- called also cock of the woods. [Written also capercaillie, capercaili.]

Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

A sort of cotton so short and fine thet it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.

Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. A poor, miserable, captive thrall. Milton.

A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.

Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in the homologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol is the type.

n the former air is charged by being passed over the surface of gasoline. In the latter a fine spray of gasoline is drawn from an atomizing nozzle by a current of air induced by the suction of the engine piston, the supply of gasoline being regulated by a float which actuates a needle valve controlling the outlet of th…