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The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting from any unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.

A cry, as of a chicken,; a whining or whimpering. Leave this faint puling and lament as I do. Shak.

nger accompanied with raving; overmastering wrath; violent anger; fury. torment, and loud lament, and furious rage. Milton.

To stretch out; to draw out into thongs, threads, or filaments.

"Loss of catel may recovered be." Chaucer. Even good men have many failings and lapses to lament and recover. Rogers.

ething valued; -- also often used reflexively. I here resign my government to thee. Shak. Lament not, Eve, but patiently resign What justly thou hast lost. Milton. What more reasonable, than that we should in all things resign up ourselves to the will of God Tiilotson.

A rootlike filament or hair growing from the stems of mosses or on lichens; a rhizoid.

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.

To lament; to regret extremely; to grieve for or over. Chaucer. I wept to see, and rued it from my heart. Chapmen. Thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Milton.

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady. I do lament the sickness of the king. Shak. Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. Pope.

Hence, to lament; to grieve. He sighed deeply in his spirit. Mark viii. 12.

Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. -- Sigh"ing*ly, adv.

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

l in drawing. And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing. Amos v. 16.

it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . . Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat. Dryden.

Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous; as, a sorrowful accident.

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, ar…

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