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Rolled or wound together, one part upon another; -- said of the leaves of plants in æstivation.

Having convolutions. beaks recurved and convoluted like a ram's horn. Pennant.

To devolve. [Obs.] Foxe.

; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

Reduced in strength; thin; weak. -- Di*lut"ed*ly, adv.

The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.

One who, or that which, dilutes or makes thin, more liquid, or weaker.

sly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley.

In a dissolute manner.

State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft.

To wash out. [R.] Arbuthnot.

To coat with clay; to lute. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A curve from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

ts length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.

A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with a mouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.

Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby.

A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.

One who plays on the flute; a flutist or flautist.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the glutæus.

The viscid, tenacious substance which gives adhesiveness to dough.