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wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals. This crystal is a pellucid, fissile stone. Sir I. Newton.

Same as Fusil, a.

Formerly, a soldier armed with a fusil. Hence, in the plural:

ument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

Felsite.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. J. Ellis.

Capable of being cut smoothly; scissible. [R.] Arbuthnot.

Resting directly upon the main stem or branch, without a petiole or footstalk; as, a sessile leaf or blossom.

Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

Made tensile. [R.]

Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

Capable of being clipped.

s, his was wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.