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BONY |
Very thin |
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LANK |
Very thin |
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GAUNT |
Very thin |
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LANKY |
Very thin |
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SHEER |
Very thin |
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FLIMSY |
Very thin, unstable |
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CHIFFON |
Very thin lightweight fabric |
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SKELETON |
A very thin or lean person. |
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SKINLESS |
Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit. |
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GOSSAMER |
Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof
stuff. |
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MICROTOME |
An instrument for making very thin sections for
microscopical examination. |
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FOIL |
A leaf or very thin sheet of metal; as, brass foil; tin foil;
gold foil. |
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VITRINA |
A genus of terrestrial gastropods, having transparent,
very thin, and delicate shells, -- whence the name. |
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SARCOLEMMA |
The very thin transparent and apparently homogeneous
sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma. |
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GAUZE |
A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk;
also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. |
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SHARP |
Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to
cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. |
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STEEL |
To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron
by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel. |
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SLIVER |
To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very
small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. |
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PYCNOGONIDA |
A class of marine arthropods in which the body is
small and thin, and the eight legs usually very long; -- called also
Pantopoda. |
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INDUSIUM |
The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many
ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a
veinlet. |
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PHYLLOSOMA |
The larva of the spiny lobsters (Palinurus and allied
genera). Its body is remarkably thin, flat, and transparent; the legs
are very long. Called also glass-crab, and glass-shrimp. |
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TINSEL |
A shining material used for ornamental purposes;
especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven
into it; also, very th... |
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TOMBAC |
...d
containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch,
brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin
... |
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TOUCAN |
... of
tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied
genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light
a... |
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HICKORY |
...re are
several species. The shagbark is the C. alba, and has a very rough
bark; it affords the hickory nut of the markets. The pignut, or brown
... |