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A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.

or short-fibered, broken, and waste silk, carded and spun, in distinction from the long filaments wound from the cocoon. It is often mixed with cotton. -- Spun yarn (Naut.), a line formed of two or more rope-yarns loosely twisted.

erce stagnates; business stagnates. Ready-witted tenderness . . . never stagnates in vain lamentations while there is any room for hope. Sir W. Scott.

secreting and furnishing the pollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.

That which is contended against; occasion of contest. [Obs.] "Lamenting her unlucky strife." Spenser.

A small, filamentous ramification of a metallic vein. Ure.

Consisting of strings, or small threads; fibrous; filamentous; as, a stringy root.

Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow; stupeous.

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

up goods to a large amount; to take up money at the bank. (c) To begin; as, to take up a lamentation. Ezek. xix. 1. (d) To gather together; to bind up; to fasten or to replace; as, to take up raveled stitches; specifically (Surg.), to fasten with a ligature. (e) To engross; to employ; to occupy or fill; as, to take up…

That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge. [R.] "Some melodous tear." Milton.

Having four loculaments, or thecæ.

The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.

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 the…

deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis. Milton.

Wanting in body or volume; small; feeble; not full. Thin, hollow sounds, and lamentable screams. Dryden.

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

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

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