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The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

An organ in certain fungi and lichens, surrounding and enveloping the masses of fructification. Henslow.

A sphere of light; esp., the luminous envelope of the sun.

anner as to give rise to a central space, around which the cells arrange themselves as an envelope; an embryonic form intermediate between the morula and gastrula. Sometimes used as synonymous with gastrula.

The investing portion, or spherical envelope, surrounding the eccentric germinal spot of the germinal vesicle.

Encircling; enveloping; comprehensive. "Large, sound, roundabout sense." Locke.

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

off from the cocoons, and before it is manufactured. -- Silk cotton, a cottony substance enveloping the seeds of the silk-cotton tree. -- Silk-cotton tree (Bot.), a name for several tropical trees of the genera Bombax and Eriodendron, and belonging to the order Bombaceæ. The trees grow to an immense size, and have th…

Enveloped in, or confined by, snow. Whittier.

ch by causing to adhere to the surface; as, to stick on a plaster; to stick a stamp on an envelope; also, to attach in any manner.

d on the surface, outside, or above something else; specifically, an address on a letter, envelope, or the like. Holland. The superscription of his accusation was written over, The King of the Jews. Mark xv. 26.

Inflammation of the synovial sheath enveloping a tendon.

A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

The soft and highly vascular deciduous skin which envelops and nourishes the antlers of deer during their rapid growth. Cotton velvet, an imitation of velvet, made of cotton. -- Velvet cork, the best kind of cork bark, supple, elastic, and not woody or porous. -- Velvet crab a European crab (Portunus puber). When adu…

A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope. Piers Plowman. Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem. Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.

Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped. We be vestured with poor cloth. Ld. Berners.

A saclike envelope of certain fungi, which bursts open as the plant develops.

To unite or surround with a web, or as if with a web; to envelop; to entangle.

To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf. She is my prize, or ocean whelm them all! Shak. The whelming billow and the faithless oar. Gay.

ch eggs usually differ from the summer eggs in having a thicker shell, and often in being enveloped in a protective case. They sometimes develop in a manner different from that of the summer eggs. -- Winter fallow, ground that is fallowed in winter. -- Winter fat. (Bot.) Same as White sage, under White. -- Winter fe…