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A covering; -- applied especially to the bundles of longitudinal fibers in the upper part of the crura of the cerebrum.

A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex (Physiol.), a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally a sign of disease. See Knee jerk, under Knee.…

To put up in bundles in order to dry, as hay.

A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.

A small bar, rod, bundle of fibers, or septal membrane, in the framework of an organ part.

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

A bundle; a package; as, a truss of grass. Fabyan. Bearing a truss of trifles at his back. Spenser.

onocotyledons (called also Endogens). -- Seeds with single cotyledon. Stems with slender bundles of woody fiber not concentrically arranged, and with no true bark.} II. Cryptogamia.

A band or bundle of fibers; a frænum.

A little mass, tuft, or bundle, as of hay or tow. Holland.

A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A bundle of fibers, or a loosely twisted or braided cord, tape, or tube, usually made of soft spun cotton threads, which by capillary attraction draws up a steady supply of the oil in lamps, the melted tallow or wax in candles, or other material used for illumination, in small successive portions, to be burned. But tru…

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance. In a small basket, on a wisp of hay. Dryden.

manufacturing purposes. -- Wool winder, a person employed to wind, or make up, wool into bundles to be packed for sale.

That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloëm.