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The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle.

A narrow fillet or band of cotton or linen; a narrow woven fabric used for strings and the like; as, curtains tied with tape.

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite.

As much as a teacup can hold; enough to fill a teacup.

As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful.

To pour, as steel, from a melting pot; to fill, as a mold, with molten metal.

tery used for statues, architectural decorations, figures, vases, and the like. -- Terræ filius Etym: [L., son of the earth], formerly, one appointed to write a satirical Latin poem at the public acts in the University of Oxford; -- not unlike the prevaricator at Cambridge, England. -- Terra firma Etym: [L.], firm or…

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…

To make close; to fill up interstices in; as, to thicken cloth; to thicken ranks of trees or men.

Not close; not crowded; not filling the space; not having the individuals of which the thing is composed in a close or compact state; hence, not abundant; as, the trees of a forest are thin; the corn or grass is thin. Ferrara is very large, but extremely thin of people. Addison.

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

Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet. [Obs.] Shak.

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

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Any long, slender nematode worm, especially the pinworm and filaria.

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

g a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.

To crowd into; to fill closely by crowding or pressing into, as a hall or a street. Shak.