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y internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith. The leaves of the endogens have, usually, parallel veins, their flowers are mostly in three, or some multiple of…

e from which another curve, called the involute or evolvent, is described by the end of a thread gradually wound upon the former, or unwound from it. See Involute. It is the locus of the centers of all the circles which are osculatory to the given curve or evolvent.

The formation of an involute by unwrapping a thread from a curve as an evolute. Hutton.

as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks.

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

ented, one as holding the distaff, a second as spinning, and the third as cutting off the thread.

The end of a web, formed by the last thread of the weft.

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

A small fiber; the branch of a fiber; a very slender thread; a fibrilla. Cheyne.

A minute thread of fiber, as one of the fibrous elements of a muscular fiber; a fibril.

Composed of threads. Bacon.

A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.

Like a thread; consisting of threads or filaments. Gray.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to a thread or line; characterized by threads stretched across the field of view; as, a filar microscope; a filar micrometer.

A machine for forming threads. [Obs.] W. Tooke.

A drawing out into threads; hence, the reeling of silk from cocoons. Ure.

Course of thought; thread of narration. [Obs.] Let me resume the file of my narration. Sir H. Wotton. File firing, the act of firing by file, or each file independently of others. -- File leader, the soldier at the front of any file, who covers and leads those in rear of him. -- File marching, the marching of a line…

Producing threads. Carpenter.