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A genus of slender, nematode worms of many species, parasitic in various animals. See Guinea worm.

ung upon, a thread; -- said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike rootlets.

A slender thread, as that of a cobweb. Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film. Shak.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.

(Bot.), the foxglove. -- Finger grass (Bot.), a kind of grass (Panicum sanguinale) with slender radiating spikes; common crab grass. See Crab grass, under Crab. -- Finger nut, a fly nut or thumb nut. -- Finger plate, a strip of metal, glass, etc., to protect a painted or polished door from finger marks. -- Finger p…

Splendor; brilliancy; luster; hence, a star. Stars, hide your fires.Shak. As in a zodiac representing the heavenly fires.Milton.

ng net, drag net, landing net, seine, shrimping net, trawl, etc. -- Fishing rod, a long slender rod, to which is attached the line for angling. -- Fishing smack, a sloop or other small vessel used in sea fishing. -- Fishing tackle, apparatus used in fishing, as hook, line, rod, etc. -- Fishing tube (Micros.), a gla…

Shaped like a whiplash; long, slender, round, flexible, and (comming) tapering.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.

A plant of the genus Linum, esp. the L. usitatissimum, which has a single, slender stalk, about a foot and a half high, with blue flowers. The fiber of the bark is used for making thread and cloth, called linen, cambric, lawn, lace, etc. Linseed oil is expressed from the seed.

The eight month of the French republican calendar. It began April 20, and ended May 19. See Vendémiare.

The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk.

slabs, which is due to the cleavage structure of one of the constituents, as mica or hornblende. It may sometimes include slaty structure or cleavage, though the latter is usually independent of any mineral constituent, and transverse to the bedding, it having been produced by pressure.

Blended; passing into each other by subtle gradations; -- said of colors or of the surface or material on which the colors are laid.

Kindly aid; help; assistance, [Obs.] Some friendship will it [a hovel] lend you gainst the tempest. Shak.

The third month of the French republican calendar. It commenced November 21, and ended December 20., See Vendémiaire.

nanthus virginica), of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.

To appear before; to meet. [Enid] daily fronted him In some fresh splendor. Tennyson.

The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.