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Composed of threads. Bacon.

A former officer in the English Court of Common Pleas; -- so called because he filed the writs on which he made out process. [Obs.] Burrill.

The part a chimney appropriated to the fire; a hearth; -- usually an open recess in a wall, in which a fire may be built.

for want of firmness and stiffness; soft and weak; limber; lax; drooping; flabby; as, a flaccid muscle; flaccid flesh. Religious profession . . . has become flacced. I. Taylor. -- Flac"cid*ly, adv. -- Flac"cid*ness, n.

The state of being flaccid.

A bacterial disease of silkworms, supposed to be due to eating contaminated mulberry leaves.

To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

A small glass bottle; as, a flacon for perfume. "Two glass flacons for the ink." Longfellow.

Very black. [Obs.] As any raven's feathers it shone forblack. Chaucer.

See Forslack.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

Fringilline.

An agent exciting secretion of milk.

Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

A white waxy substance found in the sap of the South American cow tree (Galactodendron).

Same as Galactometer.

the quality of milk (i.e., its richness in cream) by determining its specific gravity; a lactometer.

One who eats, or subsists on, milk.