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A person who calenders cloth; a calender.

A slender rod of cast lead, with or without grooves, used, in casements and stained-glass windows, to hold together the panes or pieces of glass.

A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and used to furnish light. How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Shak.

A form of pin slender and nearly straight like a candle.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

erent rates of speed, or in opposite directions, The staple issues in soft sheets, or in slender rolls called sivers.

A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between the carpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.

An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

A slender, elastic process, to which the masses of pollen in orchidaceous plants are attached.

To make music upon; to tune. [Obs. & R.] Here we our slender pipes may safely charm. Spenser.

cipal orders of myriapods. They have numerous segments, each bearing two pairs of small, slender legs, which are attached ventrallly, near together.

d of the Crow family (Fregilus graculus) of Europe. It is of a black color, with a long, slender, curved bill and red legs; -- also called chauk, chauk-daw, chocard, Cornish chough, red-legged crow. The name is also applied to several allied birds, as the Alpine chough. Cornish chough (Her.), a bird represented black,…

Having the form of cilia; very fine or slender.

A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.

A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.…

A large, slender, harmless snake of the southern United States (Masticophis flagelliformis).

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

To bring into a narrow compass; to compress. How the strait stays the slender waist constrain. Gay.

the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.