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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.

Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

bend in a curved form; to make a curl or curls. "Cirling billows." Dryden. Then round her slender waist he curled. Dryden. Curling smokes from village tops are seen. Pope. Gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow. Byron. He smiled a king of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor. Bret Harte. . 358…

A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill.

applied to many species of dipterous insects of the genus Tipula, and allied genera, with slender bodies, and very long, slender legs; the crane fly; -- called also father longlegs.

Fine or slender; minute; not coarse; -- said of a thread, or the like; as, delicate cotton.

A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

A canoe or boat dug out from a large log. [U.S.] A man stepped from his slender dugout. G. W. Cable.

ument to aid in hearing. It consists of a tube broad at the outer end, and narrowing to a slender extremity which enters the ear, thus collecting and intensifying sounds so as to assist the hearing of a partially deaf person. -- Ear vesicle (Zoöl.), a simple auditory organ, occurring in many worms, mollusks, etc. It c…

The slender, hollow thread of a nettling cell or cnida. See Nettling cell. [Written also ecthoræum.]

it. -- Elastic tissue (Anat.), a variety of connective tissue consisting of a network of slender and very elastic fibers which are but slightly affected by acids or alkalies. -- Gum elastic, caoutchouc.

Scanty; small; slender; diminutive. [R.] "Exiguous resources." Carlyle. -- Ex*ig"uous*ness, n. [R.]

Small; slender; thin; fine. [Obs.] "An exile sound." Bacon.