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Resembling air.

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

A hairlike envelope. The nucleus and chevelure of nebulous star. Sir. W. Hershel.

Hairlike processes, commonly marginal and forming a fringe like the eyelash.

Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.

Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.

A very fine, hairlike feather. Booth.

Having the appearance of a tuft of hair; having a hairlike tail or train. "Comate, crinite, caudate stars."

Covered with hairlike appendages, as the under surface of some lichens; also, composed of little strings or fibers; as, fibrillose appendages.

A hairlike feather; a father with a slender scape and without a web in most or all of its length.

Covered with hairlike feathers, as the feet of certain birds.

Wooly; covered with fine long hair, or hairlike filaments.

oot barnacle (Zoöl.), one of the Rhizocephala. -- Root hair (Bot.), one of the slender, hairlike fibers found on the surface of fresh roots. They are prolongations of the superficial cells of the root into minute tubes. Gray. -- Root leaf (Bot.), a radical leaf. See Radical, a., 3 (b). -- Root louse (Zoöl.), any pla…

dorsibranchiate annelid, belonging to Aphrodite and allied genera, having long, slender, hairlike setæ on the sides.

ke organ or part; as the hairs of a caterpillar, the slender spines of a crustacean, the hairlike processes of a protozoan, the bristles or stiff hairs on the leaves of some plants, or the pedicel of the capsule of a moss.

A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges. Trichite sheaf (Zoöl.), one of the small sheaflike fascicles of slender setæ characteristic of certain sponges. See Illust. under Spicule.

The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. -- Trich`o*gyn"ic, a.

ed wood quail (R. roulroul), the male of which is bright green, with a long crest of red hairlike feathers. -- Wood rabbit (Zoöl.), the cottontail. -- Wood rat (Zoöl.), any one of several species of American wild rats of the genus Neotoma found in the Southern United States; -- called also bush rat. The Florida wood…