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Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

Tufted cord, of silk or worsted, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

The choroid coat of the eye. See Eye. Choroid plexus (Anat.), one of the delicate fringelike processes, consisting almost entirely of blood vessels, which project into the ventricles of the brain.

Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used for tassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.

Having the margin dentate and also ciliate or fringed with hairs.

ges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the action of a grating of fine lines or bars. Remarked by Grimaldi (1665), and referred by him to a property of light which he called diffraction. Whewell. Diffraction grating. (Optics) See unde…

A small napkin, used at table with the fruit, etc.; -- commonly colored and fringed.

To furnish with a fringe or border; as, to edge a dress; to edge a garden with box. Hills whose tops were edged with groves. Pope.

That which forms an edge or border, as the fringe, trimming, etc., of a garment, or a border in a garden. Dryden.

The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

The fringe of long hair on the legs of the setter and some other dogs.

Furnished with anything featherlike; ornamented; fringed; as, land feathered with trees.

Furnished with fibrils; fringed.

A fringe, or fringed border.

Having the edge or extremity bordered by filiform processes thicker than hairs; fringed; as, the fimbriate petals of the pink; the fimbriate end of the Fallopian tube.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

A plant (Dionæa muscipula), called also Venus's flytrap, the leaves of which are fringed with stiff bristles, and fold together when certain hairs on their upper surface are touched, thus seizing insects that light on them. The insects so caught are afterwards digested by a secretion from the upper surface of the leave…

Aborned with fringes. Shak.