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Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

One of the small paper cases filled with combustible composition, which mark the outlines of a figure. Free lance, in the Middle Ages, and subsequently, a knight or roving soldier, who was free to engage for any state or commander that purchased his services; hence, a person who assails institutions or opinions on his…

Slender and thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean. Meager and lank with fasting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

To become ineffectual or void; to fall. If the archbishop shall not fill it up within six months ensuing, it lapses to the king. Ayliffe.

d substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

Liberality; generosity; bounty. [Obs.] Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer.

developed in the tentacles of jellyfishes, hydroids, and Actiniæ. Each of these cells is filled with, fluid, and contains a long, slender, often barbed, hollow thread coiled up within it. When the cell contracts the thread is quickly ejected, being at the same time turned inside out. The thread is able to penetrate th…

etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; a leper. Chaucer. Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser. Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.

ed lead ore (Min.), crocoite. -- Sugar of lead, acetate of lead. -- To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- To cast, or heave, the lead, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining th…

A genus of bacteria, characterized by having their filaments very long, slender, and indistinctly articulated.

surements, by means of a level, along a given line, as of a railroad, to ascertain the profile of the ground. -- Plumb level, one in which a horizontal bar is placed in true position by means of a plumb line, to which it is at right angles. -- Spirit level, one in which the adjustment to the horizon is shown by the p…

To proceed against by filing a libel, particularly against a ship or goods.

The party against whom a libel has been filed; -- corresponding to defendant in a common law action.

A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.

To free from trouble and fill with joy. They looked unto him, were lightened. Ps. xxxiv. 5.

Damaged by accidental exposure to light; light-fogged; -- said of plates or films.

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

The act of filing or polishing.

The act of filing.