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minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels of animals and plants.

Pert. to, or caused by, electro-capillarity.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

ariety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

The quality of being capillary.

The quality or condition of being capillary.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyperas, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs.

stop (a channel) by filling it, and preventing passage through it; as, to constipate the capillary vessels.

The occurrence or production of certain capillary effects by the action of an electrical current or charge.

The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney.

A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases.

effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. "One next himself in power, and next in crime." Milton.

A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called…

not to a lessening of the heart's beat, but presumably to some abnormal resistance of the capillary walls. It is one of the phenomena observed in the capillaries in inflammation.

d, as in the bloody sweat characteristic of certain varieties of religious ecstasy, or by capillary congestion, as in the case of drunkards.

hich as a rule are of greater complexity than those manifested by a single organ; as, the capillary system, the muscular system, the digestive system, etc.; hence, the whole body as a functional unity.

Dilatation of the capillary vessels.