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Thin-billed; -- applied to birds with a slender bill, as the humming birds.

An artificial group of passerine birds having slender bills, as the humming birds.

The quality or state of being tenuous; thinness, applied to a broad substance; slenderness, applied to anything that is long; as, the tenuity of a leaf; the tenuity of a hair.

Thin; slender; small; minute.

A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

as an animal, with a long rope or chain, as for feeding within certain limits. And by a slender cord was tethered to a stone. Wordsworth.

The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

Having more depth or extent from one surface to its opposite than usual; not thin or slender; as, a thick plank; thick cloth; thick paper; thick neck.

Not stout; slim; slender; lean; gaunt; as, a person becomes thin by disease.

small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.

uth American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

dsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses.

long-legged dipterous insects belonging to Tipula and allied genera. They have long and slender bodies. See Crane fly, under Crane.

A kind of inferior cigar of a long slender shape, tapered at one end. [Local, U. S.]

A projection, or slender appendage or fixture; as, the tongue of a buckle, or of a balance.

ute forces, as electric or magnetic attractions and repulsions, by the torsion of a very slender wire or fiber having at its lower extremity a horizontal bar or needle, upon which the forces act. -- Torsion scale, a scale for weighing in which the fulcra of the levers or beams are strained wires or strips acting by to…

To grow to great length, especially when slender and creeping upon the ground, as a plant; to run or climb.

A stick used in playing the game of trapball; hence, fig., a slender leg. Addison.