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A fabric of twine, thread, or the like, wrought or woven into meshes, and used for catching fish, birds, butterflies, etc.

The act or process of making nets or network, or of forming meshes, as for fancywork, fishing nets, etc.

her at certain intervals, and knotted or secured at the crossings, thus leaving spaces or meshes between them.

r Epicyclic. -- Planet wheel, a gear wheel which revolves around the wheel with which it meshes, in an epicyclic train.

In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes, like network.

he pseudopodia are more or less slender and coalesce at certain points, forming irregular meshes. It includes the shelled Foraminifera, together with some groups which lack a true shell.

e rhizopod (Zoöl.), a rhizopod in which the pseudopodia blend together and form irregular meshes.

A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand.

The cord or rope at the margin of a seine, to which the meshes of the net are attached. Seaming machine, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

A sieve with fine meshes. [Prov. Eng.]