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That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimeter, is considered to equal the radius of the sphere of molecular act…

To fill to satiety and disgust; to cloy; as, he surfeits us with compliments. V. Knox.

survives or outlives another person, or any time, event, or thing. The survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. Shak.

To cause (a boat) to become filled with water; to capsize or sink by whelming with water.

The grassy surface of land; that part of the soil which is filled with the roots of grass; turf. The sward was trim as any garden lawn. Tennyson. Sward pork, bacon in large fitches. [Prov. Eng.]

To abound; to be filled (with). Atterbury.

Liquid filth; wash; hog mash. [Obs.]

A band or fillet; a swathe. Shak. Swath bank, a row of new-mown grass. [Prov. Eng.]

The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc. Sweep net, a net for drawing over a large compass. -- Sweep of the tiller (Naut.), a circular frame on which the tiller traverses.

To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.

To be filled with swimming animals. [Obs.] [Streams] that swim full of small fishes. Chaucer.

ts, the whole produced by a single impulse or utterance. One of the liquids, l, m, n, may fill the place of a vowel in a syllable. Adjoining syllables in a word or phrase need not to be marked off by a pause, but only by such an abatement and renewal, or reënforcement, of the stress as to give the feeling of separate i…

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

As much as a tablespoon will hold; enough to fill a tablespoon. It is usually reckoned as one half of a fluid ounce, or four fluid drams.

The fillet, or band, at the bottom of a Doric frieze, separating it from the architrave.

An ornament placed at the bottom of a short page to fill up the space, or at the end of a book. Savage.

specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up the time; to take up a great deal of room. (f) To take permanently. "Arnobius asserts that men of the finest parts . . . took up their rest in the Christian religion." Addison. (g) To seize; to catch; to arres…

ling the tamarind, as the Lysiloma latisiliqua of Southern Florida, and the Pithecolobium filicifolium of the West Indies.

One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.

The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine.