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To store (green fodder) in a silo; to prepare as silage. -- En"si*list (#), n.

Suited for, or capable of, extension; extensible. Owen.

Not extensile; incapable of being stretched.

Hanging; suspended; pendent; pendulous. Bacon. The long, pensile branches of the birches. W. Howitt.

State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

Of or pertaining to extension; as, tensile strength.

Made tensile. [R.]

Pertaining to the variation of tensile strength with the temperature.

A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.

A genus of American monkeys with prehensile tails, and having the thumb wanting or rudimentary. See Spider monkey, and Coaita.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

A large, dark-colored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail.

A large South American monkey (Lagothrix Humboldtii), with prehensile tail.

in Africa, Asia, and Europe. The skin is covered with fine granmulations; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

The Brazilian porcupine (Cercolades, or Sphingurus, prehensiles), remarkable for its prehensile tail.

measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

oleptes caudivolvulus) of South America, about as large as a full-grown cat. It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. It is the only representative of a distinct family (Cercoleptidæ) allied to the raccoons. Called also potto, and honey bear.

he genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidæ. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.