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Having long, slender legs.

Having long, slender legs. Addison.

A person with slender shanks, or legs; -- used humorously or in contempt.

Long and slender, or disproportionately tall and slender; as, a spindling tree; a spindling boy.

Thin and long; slim; slender. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Like a spine in shape; slender. "Spiny grasshoppers sit chirping." Chapman.

One of the special defensive zooids of certain hydroids. They have the form of long, slender tentacles, and bear lasso cells.

A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. "Spiry towns." Thomson.

A long, slender, pointed rod, usually of iron, for holding meat while roasting.

To split into splints, or thin, slender pieces; to splinter; to shiver. [Obs. or R.] Florio.

A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.

A piece of wood, usually long and slender, pointed at one end so as to be easily driven into the ground as a support or stay; as, a stake to support vines, fences, hedges, etc. A sharpened stake strong Dryas found. Dryden.

h whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

trunk or the stem. Sir W. Raleigh. The lowering spring, with lavish rain, Beats down the slender stem and breaded grain. Dryden.

Any long and comparatively slender piece of wood, whether in natural form or shaped with tools; a rod; a wand; a staff; as, the stick of a rocket; a walking stick.

A kind of dagger with a slender, rounded, and pointed blade.

irds belonging to Himantopus and allied genera, in which the legs are remarkably long and slender. Called also longshanks, stiltbird, stilt plover, and lawyer.

roup of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter.

Set with stiff, slender bristles.