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To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread, as by means of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch. Shak.

The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.

e of several species of East Indian sunbirds of the genus Arachnothera. -- Spider lines, filaments of a spider's web crossing the field of vision in optical instruments; -- used for determining the exact position of objects and making delicate measurements. Fine wires, silk fibers, or lines on glass similarly placed,…

A genus of common motile microörganisms (Spirobacteria) having the form of spiral-shaped filaments. One species is said to be the cause of relapsing fever.

A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.

, or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. -- Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.

or secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Ure.

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

A sense organ found in certain sponges. It consists of several filaments, each of which arises from a single cell.

The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

by means of asexual spores; in the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly undifferentiated into stem, leaves, and roots, and shows no distinct tissue systems; the fronds of many algæ, however, are modified to serve many of the functions of th…

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

cies 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.

To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver. Tomlinson. To throw away. (a) To lose by neglect or folly;…

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

rn 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.