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A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

To swell or heave like a [R.] Lisle.

To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.

Espial. [Obs.]

In an evil manner; not well; ill. [Obs.] "Good deeds evilly bestowed." Shak.

Having no aril; -- said of certain seeds, or of the plants producing them.

To drop or distill. [Obs.] Johnson.

Distillation. [Obs.] An exudation or extillation of petrifying juices. Derham.

Growing outside of the axils; as, an extra-axillary bud.

A soft silk, heavier than a foulard and not glossy.

Of or pertaining to ashes. [Obs.] Light and favollous particles. Sir T. Browne.

A buckle or clasp. [Obs.] Donne.

A reformed branch of the Bernardines, founded in 1577 at Feuillans, near Toulouse, in France.

Having the color of a faded leaf. Locke.

A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

A writer of feuilletons. F. Harrison.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Of or pertaining to fibrils or fibers; as, fibrillar twitchings.