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Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. Dryden.

A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark; also, a line of gold or silver.

es of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

Like thread or filaments; slender; as, the thready roots of a shrub.

Lamentation; threnody; a dirge. Shak. The threns . . . of the prophet Jeremiah. Jer. Taylor.

A song of lamentation; a threnode. Sir T. Herbert.

h the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.

ance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

That part of a torsion balance from which the wire or filament is suspended.

Asia, and other species of Astragalus. It comes in hard whitish or yellowish flakes or filaments, and is nearly insoluble in water, but slowly swells into a mucilaginous mass, which is used as a substitute for gum arabic in medicine and the arts. Called also gum tragacanth.

Having stamens joined by filaments into three bundles. See Illust. under Adelphous.

The gill of a crustacean in which the branchial filaments are slender and cylindrical, as in the crawfishes.

A lamellibranch which has three muscular scars on each valve.

A small pipe forming part of the boiler, containing water and surrounded by flame or hot gases, or else surrounded by water and forming a flue for the gases to pass through.

lous boiler, a steam boiler composed chiefly of tubes containing water and surrounded by flame and hot gases; -- sometimes distinguished from tubular boiler.

An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.

are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawi…

f. (Elec.), designating, or pertaining to, an incandescent lamp with a small additional filament which can be made incandescent when only a small amount of light is required.

hich this reversal is brought about. Polysynthetic twinning, repeated twinning of crystal lamellæ, as that of the triclinic feldspars. -- Repeated twinning, twinning of more than two crystals, or parts of crystals. -- Twinning axis, Twinning plane. See the Note under Twin, n.

A twisted filament; a thread. [Obs.] Locke.